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we've already gone through the exercise of kind of tentatively approving those and recommending those um Justice Just today the state in-house the Senate in-house approved the K-12 budget and so I'll have those actual numbers this year if you remember remember in years past we were bringing recommendations based on tentative approval or you know basically assumptions from the legislature but this year they've done the work and they do have a K-12 budget so um the proposed and adopted budget will reflect actual numbers this year and will get us off to a good start going into next fiscal year jumping into the highlights of this budget revision the main highlights include our 130 ADM as I mentioned um so from December our last revision to this revision our ADM is increased about just over 17 uh from the December budget revision again this uh budget revision aligns all our budget controlled funds which are mainly our maintenance and operations fund and our Capital fund and again this is the final budget revision for fiscal 23.

um that also takes into consideration the 9 million dollar The increased one million dollar transfer from mno to Capital so that's a revised budget from number two to number three has an increase of uh 144 000 but that does show an increase if you remember in December we did have about 30 students lost in terms of ADM so we did recapture some of those from December to this revision so the main increases again as I alluded to is is mostly due to the additional transfer to the capital fund so in December we adopted a budget revision uh number two and that capital budget was 28 million 243 850 dollars um we're revising tonight to 29 million 243 855 again that captures the increase in ADM but the main increase here is obviously that million dollars and increased transfer from mno to Capital to fund those projects that are pre-approved from the school facilities oversight board um and then we'll reverse that transfer when we get to our fiscal 24 budget but this lets us move forward with those projects with their commitment that they'll fund those July 1 but we do need cash to to proceed with those projects um and so that allows us to do that for this summer so that Capital difference is an increase of just over a million dollars which is approximately three percent and that's it so really uh just a recap um you know there was talks about doing a budget Revision in April um but as we know the resolution passed for the AEL um and happy to report too that this morning there is a there was a resolution for fiscal 24 already so uh that's a relief knowing that we can go to the next fiscal year without that uh basically limit over our heads and we can budget and plan accordingly to our fullest budget capacity so tonight I presented the third budget revision again this is the last budget revision for fiscal 23 and that to basically reconciled up to that 100 the ADM numbers and this is what we'll adopt later this evening or recommendedly receiving for the board so with that if there's any questions I'll be happy to answered at this time it's also appropriate that if the public has any questions then you may do so at this time during our public hearing regarding the budget what presidentials do you have an idea of what the amount will be for next year with the budget passing I just got those numbers today so I I do preliminary have those I don't want to say those right now because I do need to like run the numbers and make sure I I what I say is factual um but some of the highlights include um we did realize the two percent increase in terms of inflation we included that in all of our budget presentations when we were talking about tentative approval that was one assumption that did come to fruition as actual inflation is north of seven percent the other increase there's some other increases that I think I feel like I can highlight in June when we talk about a proposed 24 budget and I have time to digest those and present those um actual numbers and what they mean for Higley thank you other questions thank you Mr Moore it is important that we are able to do those summer projects and so I appreciate moving the money for that there's no other questions at this time we will re I make a motion that we reconvene in Open Session all those in favor all right request to speak we value input from our constituents this time on our agenda has been set aside for anyone from the audience who wishes to address the board those that wish to speak should have filled out speaker cards which are due prior to the start of our meeting members of the board may not discuss comment or take action on matters that are not specifically identified on the agenda therefore pursuant to ARS 38-4 31.01 H 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 a decision at a later date also we ask the audience members to please practice proper public meeting decorum refraining from either negative or positive responses including clapping or verbal outbursts to ensure fairness to All Points of View those that refuse to follow those rules will be asked may be asked to leave speakers please limit your remarks to three minutes thank you for your cooperation our first speaker is Tiffany Benson foreign [Music] Higley governing board I'm Tiffany Benson as public servants under oath we expect you to obey the law respect the office of governing board member and maintain decorum in public meetings we don't expect you to Aid and abet the exploitation of minors but on April 5th you approved BrainPOP as part of husd's Technology curriculum students as young as Pre-K are exposed to sexualized content and gender propaganda in your schools there are only two genders so gender propaganda is stupid male and female is all we have there are no changes and if you think otherwise your anti-science also on April 5th a board member violated open meeting law when she corrected a speaker about the GSA Club on campus the club is chartered as gay straight Alliance and run by students but the parent company is genders and sexualities Alliance and it's run by adult predators brainpops social media social media also contains discussions on black lives matter SEL and social justice this is CRT by another name since the fake Governor vote vetoed SB 1305 the left is taking its Liberty but did you know that social justice and transgender ideologies are actually secular humanist doctrines secular humanism is a Godless philosophy based on human reasoning and secular morals and ethics it's actually a religion that's protected by the First Amendment and you can read about this in American humanist Association versus Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2014.

Shelley you probably know more of the particulars I'm just going off of the data that was there but again has been successful um the one thing you have to worry about if you're not increasing Your Capacity your secondary tax rate and assessment there's only so much you can only do 10 so if you have 10 out there issued in bonds you may not have any capacity to go out for a bond until you pay down your debt Services enough that you now have capacity to go out for a bond um I we have some capacity and obviously if if you bring in a bunch of homes and we go through uh you know not only homes but if when LG comes in that's going to increase our secondary assess valuation through the roof and so you could sit and go ahead and pass a bond it would cost very limited amount to the taxpayer because in essence The Lion's Share of uh of your tax rate is going to be picked up by LG and some of the other um commercial spaces that will probably be coming in so in the future and that's where you get high wealth districts in terms of secondary assess valuation pass bonds left right and Center because the overall hit to the taxpayer is nominal at best if you go up to Sedona and you see some of the facilities they have on a high school that quite frankly is losing kids so fast they may have to close it down they have state of the art facilities left right and Center because the tax rate is such that every time they pass the bond it was it was two cents on every 100 for the taxpayers so it was no big deal but if you're in a in a smaller Community uh the tax burden is picked up by the taxpayers more than commercials especially out here as an example until we had commercial you're picking it up by basically your your homeowners once commercial comes in that will change so that may change for our district in the next decade once you start to see like I say if LG's coming in and their their plant is now worth 5.5 billion you just change the set us valuation something significantly out here so just a couple things just to see what the upcoming elections are I put in obviously if you have presidential or governor election it creates a definition I'll get to that in a second but I will put in in 2025 right now is prop 123ns so there's a fiscal cliff coming in in January of 2025 and so that that may may have people take a look at whether you want to do an override or not do an override to offset the loss of the 123 and help me out Julian what the number is on 123 how much we get roughly right so it's it's it's decent amount of money that comes in off off prop one two three um just a quick timeline this varies a little bit from hold on hold on just one two three is that like yeah it's limited and has to go to teachers uh it's a little bit broader than the old definition of just teachers but it's it's limited in where you can put it okay um and it was passed uh during ducey's Administration I can't remember the exact year but it was scheduled to Sunset 25.

and so some of the topics and then we can start talking about and I just there may be more than this but those are the ones that come up we've had lots of conversations about salary and the reality is everybody to the west of us is on a 15 mno there's an impossibility for us to remain competitive in all sorts of salaries we can dump more money into one employee group at the expense of another employee group to try to make them more competitive but that second employee group will be less competitive with neighboring districts so if you want to try and take care of of teachers that's fine but then there's going to be a problem with with classified staff if you want to take care of classified staff because we're losing bus drivers Etc that's fine but then you limit your funds that you need to go ahead and take care of your teachers and and the the reality is we can get creative we can squeeze we can make adjustments but there's no way we can continue to make up the ground with those districts to the west of us so that's that's a reality and that would be the rationale for a conversation um when do you hold this is it here in 23 uh there used to be you would do it uh in an off year because less people would come out you had a better chance to pass um sometimes they're saying no because in off year the people nowadays that come out tend to just be the high efficacy voters and if they don't like K-12 then you have a tougher time so if you go on a regular ballot more people come out therefore you have a better chance those people that might be favorable to to voting for it would come out problematic for 24 is with everything going on if you if you I'll just keep it simple if you have a trump Biden ticket that's going against each other uh it's going to be a crazy turbulent election section or a session and then you're going to have lots and lots of people participate that may be beneficial that may not be beneficial if you're not strong proponents of public education then it's probably hurt you a little bit in that situation talked about out here we've had trouble with overrides bondsmen a little bit better but I'll just say historically around this part of the valley uh it's been a bit of a struggle uh the further out you get I don't think AJ's passed their overrides and so six nor have I believe they passed the bond since about five or six four five or six I know Florence hasn't gone out the last couple years because they've failed two or three in a row and then our bigger issues too is traditionally you've got 75 percent of all communities yeah people in communities that aren't part of our system so you're counting on the notion that if our employees would just get out and vote it would pass is really a fallacy it's about the people that don't have anything to do with with the district coming out vote our problem is compounded by 50 of the family so of the 25 percent of families that have kids we have over half of those families that are not in our system so now you're going to someone and asking someone to go ahead and increase their tax base or their their tax rate for right for a school that they they go to a legacy or they go to Ala or they go to wherever doesn't mean it can't be done in some cases people will vote for it but obviously it's a unique challenge here in comparison to some other places so I know I've talked quickly I want to leave time for conversation and so really we're at the point of what is the discussion about um what are questions and then more importantly what is this discussion about the notion of the notion of coming or moving forward uh with with some action again uh I just we can't make this is not a action item but the discussion could be based on whatever we want to think about going out a year from now we need to do some research or the discussion could be in order for us to stay competitive what the heck let's go take a swing of the fences and let's go this year it will be different to go this year just because you need to have a pack in place so some of you may say so why are you bringing this to me if it's going to be difficult this year because I want people to understand that the notion of trying to remain competitive is getting to almost impossible and so we can't keep having people have an expectation you know everybody's upset because somebody down the street is paying more for bus drivers or for custodians for teachers or for administrators you're right and and without a bond excuse me without an override that's not going to change if we're saying we're not going to go out until 24 that's okay but the next budget cycle we'll talk a little bit about the budget in my report probably going to be a little bit tougher of a budget cycle in the state for a lot of different reasons I would anticipate that there's going to be a plethora of money coming in that somehow gives us an opportunity to close the gap with those of us those districts that are to the west of us and so that's why I'm bringing it Forward just so we're all very crystal clear that if we decide to go to 24 or 25 or that's direction to research that cool but it will have an impact on next year's budget with that and and then we just have to understand that and then move forward the best we can so open up for questions discussion comments or whatever we need to to just talk about a little bit more when's the last time that we did um a survey on I thought we had a we put out a feeler at some point right we put out a feeler right before um we I think we went with um went with Paul bence who's with high high ground and we got the data if I remember correctly decemberish or January pre-covered and then when we got the information back from them they did the I think they did the their calling survey in in that time frame and they got came back to us uh it was okay favorable if I remember correctly I think their cutoff is 60 62 percent and based on the way they were the question they felt like we were in a position that at least we uh we should consider it whether we decided to go out for or not but then when covet hit and then when we had some of the concerns relative to the start of the school year uh that one went by the wayside and so we never put it out if if the decision excuse me if the decision were to push out for another year let's just say then I would come back to you probably again November December to go ahead and go back out to do another another analysis of um of where the where the public how the public feels about uh voting in in this area so so that would be part of it you guys have any questions um so if you were to say I think this is a good idea for this November what what your what would be your recommendation you know I from a budgeting standpoint I think it's a good idea because we're just struggling so hard to keep up from a practical situation that makes it a little more difficult because that we don't have a pack in place we would have to go ahead and move quickly to get everything for the June 4th uh board meeting and then the question is what do we really need to raise from the pack to get the word out and we just did a survey of our staff and I don't remember the numbers but those people that in our staff that live in in our in the community is less than 50 percent uh it might be 45.55 so it's not tremendously less but but so that alone creates its own set of issues because we don't even have a majority of our our staff that's there now that's going to not change by next year I think that there so why would you bring it for the 23 if there's concerns because the prevailing feeling is that 24 is going to be very very difficult because of the politics that are happening in our country right now so then that means you're all the way out to 25.

one point of emphasis is that middle section there we're increasing the transfer amount in this budget revision due to a couple factors so these school facilities oversight board um is a state board that provides Capital funding for school districts based on a application process and on greatest need they are out of money for fiscal 23 and so right now they're taking basically applications for fiscal 24 in terms of projects that are being proposed and approved for funding we have not got letters yet but they provide letters basically guaranteeing that projects will be funded out of next year's budget and so we can commit with summer projects as as the state knows summer is our is our main timeline in which we need to get basically projects done and completed so they do provide letters basically of commitment that they will fund projects but they do not provide that upfront funding so what we're proposing tonight is to increase the transfer of a million dollars from mno to Capital to front load some of those projects until that funding is released on July 1 from the state facilities board at that time we would basically earn our next budget revision we would reverse this transfer to move that money back into mno as those projects would be fully funded from the state facilities board so what that means for this fiscal Year's budget is that total transfer will now increase to 9 million I'll go over that in a later slide as well what that looks like in addition we did in reconciling this budget against our previous fiscal year budget we found an adjustment a 283 000 where we under calculated our mno override budget amount so the state allows there's a statute or ARS 15 915 it allows districts to come back and submit corrections to capture that budget capacity so in this budget form that we're doing tonight at budget revision that we're doing tonight we are capturing that that 283 000 and additional funding so looking at this budget revision and what it means for our maintenance and operations budget as I've alluded to the the budget revision number two that we did in December uh was adopted by the board December 13 2022 that budget total was 119 million 873 246 dollars we're revising uh tonight to 120 million 17 446 dollars and again the majority of that increase is from those two factors the increase in ADM as well as the the capturing of the mno override budget capacity that was underestimated in fiscal year 22.

Article 2 Section 12 of the Arizona Constitution says no public money or property shall be appropriated for religious exercise or instruction so by adopting BrainPOP or any secular humanist curriculum husd is breaking state law I encourage Educators to use their Liberty to teach real science real ethics and use biblical principles to counter humanist doctrines they're free to do this under the First Amendment and under article 6 of the U.S Constitution which is the supreme law of our land if anyone who wants to blow the whistle on husd visit schoolboardwatchlist.org and submit an investigation request lastly the left likes to mock the word grooming when we use it but it's actually a nice word when it comes to board members and administrators like those in husd I prefer the term pedophiles by proxy because that's what you are I'm Tiffany with Turning Point USA speaker is Heather buck hi everyone um good evening to our governing board president and governing board members and our cabinet thank you for having me here tonight I just wanted to take a minute to tell you all how great the Fine Arts Festival was that we had at the end of the month uh last month the art exhibits by the students were tremendous it was well attended in addition to Art we got to hear trash can bands and see orchestras and hear choirs and the community all came out and it was just really great support and a very positive event um I do want to thank all of the staff members and students that worked so hard to put that great event on and it just really shows the dedication of Higley and how important it is to put our students first thank you thank you Miss Kathleen Richards Mrs I feel like I'm back at a forensics competition uh good evening board members uh thank you for all of the presentation this more this evening of all of the students it was really great to see some of the extracurricular activities that all of our students partake in I have the pleasure of running a drama club at our one of our elementary schools HTA and it's been amazing to see what the Arts can do for these kiddos in the classroom and the way it can help both their academics and their social well-being as they move forward the reason I wanted to talk today is I was listening to the radio and I happened to hear a podcast through KTR which had one of our board members on it in that particular podcast there was a lot of vagary and potential misdirection of information so I wanted to clarify something because as I listened to it I realized as a parent I didn't necessarily know what mtss is and I wanted to take a minute to share some of the information in case there are any parents out there like me who were wondering because it certainly sounded very scary in the Nine Minute Podcast but what I found was actually really reassuring so mtss stands for multi-tiered system of support it is a tiered framework using data-based problem solving to support academic and behavioral needs now I have spent many years in a classroom as well and it is impossible most times to separate academic struggles in children all the way through High School from behavioral issues that they may display there so what we have is a tiered system that's designed specifically to make sure that the academics are caught and caught quickly and treated with whatever academic intervention is necessary tier one is simply the core instruction tier two is targeted Intervention which some parents may know know as rti in our particular School my daughters have always had RTI which simply has served as a wonderful differentiation of instruction so for the kiddos that are Advanced they're going off with a teacher and dealing with Advanced topics for the kiddos that are struggling with a particular subject area they're able to focus on that subject area to be able to find their strengths and be able to find their footing in that area and then the third tier is intensive intervention so that's where you have a more parent involvement although parents are involved in Higley from start to finish if your child has been identified as needing any of these interventions from forms to meetings all of these things it's all readily available on the Arizona Department of Education because this is mandated by the federal government it's not something unique to husd when you Google mtss you'll find dozens of school districts that reference it on their own websites so it is not something unique to hear and I was really disappointed that a board member would go on a show like that and represent themselves as a member of this board and present misinformation so I hope that that will stop in the future thank you foreign thank you Mr Roy Morales hi good evening and thank you for having me here tonight um I just wanted to make a point of clarification in my last presentation I was here and we were discussing about the GSA club that spoke at Higley High School and at williamsfield high school and Hyatt called it I believe it was a gay sexual Alliance club and I was corrected after my speak my speech and uh was uh corrected to say there was a gender of sexual reality Alliance and that may be true but I just wanted to point out that you know we do the best we can with the information that we receive I was actually going off of a poster board that was made by one of the students and where they had a open house for all the eighth graders and it did say gender sexuality Alliance on this poster board so if anybody needed correction that to me would have been that student and not me so I just got out to you I also have a form a form from the NIH that has confirmed that it actually goes by both names gender sexual Alliance or the gay straight aligned so according to the NIH website it says both so you could probably use it interchangeably uh so I just feel that when a board member corrects somebody who has a request to speak and addresses an after they speak and they have to sit down they can't rebut they can't engage in that conversation I think that's an unfair practice so moving on um I was looking at the upcoming proposal for your renewal of your membership or the Arizona School Board Association it looks like that this contract is in for for the next four years and it looks like it apparently it looks about about fifty one hundred dollars per year for this uh membership and surprisingly this is a four-year membership so it looks like an All or Nothing proposition so my concern is is that you guys go into this contract the asba you're committed for four years you pay your fifty one hundred dollars per year and it ends any moment could the next School Board in two years maybe in different uh opinions with the asba want to back out of that contract they're still on the hook for 50 or whatever is remaining on that contract I see then here that um so that so in other words you still have to Shell out that money in order to leave the association there have been many uh districts that have left the uh asba because of their close ties to the National Association of school boards which wrote a letter to the doj claiming that parents who go to school board meetings are domestic terrorists and I understand the ASB backed away they didn't want to be part of that but that isn't to say something in the future may happen and this is an opportunity where the district can hold them feet to the fire and say you know what you guys are doing something we can't hold you accountable if we were stuck in a four-year contract because if we quit we're going to have to pay 50 of whatever's remaining on that contract so I would ask you guys to see if if their current contract allows you just to do the automatic annual renewal and just keep it as such that way you can keep them accountable for their actions going forward okay thank you so much Mr John Mason before I I get started uh talking I just wanted to uh thank Mr Tyler Moore for some really nice Communications that we had a long time ago and I just wanted to recognize you and thank you because I felt I put you under the gun one time and I apologize so um you know I wanted to talk about social and emotional learning social emotional learning is an intrinsic part of the district's strategic plan I request that the district have at least three open meetings to discuss social emotional learning at Higley this could provide the community opportunities to ask questions about SEL it would also provide an opportunity for the community to give feedback about the district's SEL goals during the last election the two the two School Board candidates who were explicitly against SEL received almost 50 percent of the vote that means that probably 50 percent of the constituents are against SEL this suggests to me that the district is not in touch with the values of at least 50 percent of the community I make no personal claims about having a high level of Social and emotional maturity however a district that teaches social and emotional skills must be willing to demonstrate those skills thus I ask that you do the socially and emotionally mature thing I request that you have open meetings to ensure that the 50 percent who implicitly voted against SEL to have their voices heard I will mention my primary concern with RCL SEL can be used as a tool to influence students political beliefs the district has already introduced politics into the learning environment as I explained two months ago before the school board the district illegally used public resources to influence the outcome of an election I'm also aware of instances where the students are belittled by teachers for their political beliefs in particular one student at Higley was publicly called a racist by a teacher for being a trump supporter I find that disturbing you know I I recently looked it up on I think it was the Pew Research Center racism is extraordinarily in my opinion racism is extraordinarily rare in the United States I Married an immigrant wife from South Africa she grew up in South Africa where apartheid was a problem she grew up under the most oppressive circumstances imaginable I've never had a problem with being married to a black lady I've never experienced racism I've never had an instance in which my racial children have been discriminated against so you know I was so so when people start saying that that Trump is a racist they're just very rare in the United States in my opinion so uh I really advise that you keep SEL and politics off from the school grounds and thank you very much for your time today [Music] yes thank you moving on to the consent agenda item 6.1 through 6.17 I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda items second all those in favor aye five to zero and with that I'd like to introduce introduce Mr latzenheiser president Schultz members of the board with your approval of the consent agenda you hired some new administrators for next year and three of them are in attendance today and so I'd like to introduce them to you and then turn it over to Mr Moore but um it's kind of weird I want to turn around on another back here so first of all I'd like to introduce Mr Chad Cantrell who will be the principal at Cooley Middle School next year Chad comes to us with experience as we sent to the community as a para educator a teacher an athletic director and instructional coach a testing coordinator and Elementary principal and a junior high Middle School principal most recently in Apache Junction but we're glad to have him joining us next year um where is Pam I'd like to introduce Pam Simmons as the new assistant principal of activities at Higley High School [Applause] Pam is currently the dean of students and has worked at Higley for the last two years and is now joining and moving up into the assistant principal role welcome Pam finally I'd like to introduce our new dean of students at sasman middle school and Nicole McCullough the call brings years of experience as Middle School and Middle School administration is moving to us from Maricopa so welcome aboard to our three new administrators for next year Mr Moore [Applause] we actually have one more administrator that is part of my team here I'd like to introduce uh Gustavo Padilla he's our new director of Maintenance and construction uh we'd like to welcome him from he comes from us he comes from Queen Creek uh it brings 10 years of experience in the facilities and maintenance department so we're happy to have him to be a part of our team so welcome thank you and welcome to all of our new staff we look forward to next year and while we're welcoming new staff I want to just take a minute to say good um wish all of our retirees that we just approved their retirement um with the consent agenda as well including Mrs Patty Gleason who has a special place in my heart and her work with everything that she's done with the preschool program and I just I don't um normally call out specific teachers that are leaving the district but I just wanted to give a personal goodbye to um a teacher that I worked with at Cooley Middle School who was my mentor and um made things a lot easier oh man I'm sorry I think it's a lot easier there and he's been in Higley for 14 years and I didn't know so I found out to say he actually attended these schools very cool so I just wanted to say Goodbye Mr McGee and to all the lives that you changed and it was um an honor to work with you very nice Mrs Anderson we will be moving on to information items 7.1 Higley High School project update phase two weatherization and exterior painting good evening president Schultz members of the board um tonight we're bringing to you uh phase two update for the Higley High School project the weatherization project was postponed and we're still working on pricing tonight that was previously why we haven't brought it earlier tonight we do have the pricing and we do have a few Renditions I'd like to invite up to the podium the DLR group there's a Carmen and Simon and then Chase Building we have a representation uh Mr Patrick Shepherd um but tonight um again uh in our presentation I presents an acronym slide for those who are watching online and want to uh review the presentation um moving into the Higgly High project Phase One update um progress is is moving forward um the team at Chase is is um I want to say add schedule or ahead of schedule right now um I've personally walked the building as long as several members of the cabinet and it is amazing you walk in one week in the next week There's drive all up and paint and so they are moving quickly still shooting for that July start data the start of school you can see a picture here you can see the rendition is almost looking like the building now we're getting closer um I think Patrick is there anything you want to add to the Phase One update this project going it's really been great I actually walked it before I came up here for the meeting and the site looks great it's clean it's safe and the Interiors are all starting to really pop with some of the finishes so overall it's going to be a great job as you can see see whenever we can match the rendering and make it look like the picture we know we're doing something right so it's a beautiful building and we're just we're happy to be here and proud to be a part of the project so jumping into phase two again this was uh phase two initiatives were presented to the governing board as uh recommendations from District to maintain the campus in terms of Safety and Security as well as general maintenance needs at the campus um was in well need of these projects are being funded by the capital capital dollars as you know we do not have a bond in place and so these projects while chase is on site we felt it was advantageous to utilize them that we had some cost Savings in terms of keeping on board and achieving some of the maintenance needs at the site that campus had just a recap gmp3 we brought that to the board earlier this month that included the restroom refreshes campus security and lighting and traffic flow modifications that GMP was 2.8 million dollars with 000 coming from the adjacent ways fund and most of that again being a part of the traffic flow modifications the restroom refresh I'm happy to report about three different restrooms are near complete I think we're just waiting on partitions and so those might open up while students are still in school and so um that is just a again a tribute to Chase and their team and working through uh with Mr fields and the Higley High campus and making sure what direction we can get into in keeping the schedule moving forward so um those restaurants will more than likely be opened again before the end of school moving down to tonight so tonight we're presenting gmp4 this GMP includes the exterior weatherization and painting and so weatherization again includes a number of different things so not only is it is it the paint on the exterior but it's also weatherizing the building against elements in terms of water wind anything like that to basically preventative maintenance and so it sends the useful life of the building and with that the school facilities oversight board the state they provide funding for that to maintain your schools when they get to a point of that need so Higley High did qualify in terms of some of the assessments that we had on the building for sfob funding about 98 of the campus that was eligible for SOB funding failed the assessment and so this the campus really was in need of this project so um tonight that proposal for gmp4 is later on the recommended on the action item but that includes a 1.8 million dollars with 1.1 million dollars being funded from the state so only about 600 000 being from from the capital budget so you're going through the math down there so again we started with a attended budget 3.5 million total project costs including everything is 4.7 but utilizing different funding resources in the state um that that basically attributes 1.6 million dollars and basically other funding that's helping support these projects and so the true Capital cost to the district and that Capital fund is only 3.1 million dollars this would be the extent of phase two in the projects at Higley High School I know it seems like it's dragged on but it's important to understand that pricing and long lead items have caused some delays in getting you guys actual numbers as well as working with the school facilities oversight board and making sure that they have what they need to approve this project and and basically that we have that funding available to use for us with that we do have a few rendering so I'd like to show you so I have a few before and afters and I would like to thank Simone from DLR to that provided these um I I was kind of picky and I said I I know I want our board to see like actual Renditions of what before and after would look like and so um again these are about 99 done we're still working with campus admin to make sure this is something that their campus basically looks feels and wants in terms of colors those are the little variables that we have available to choose from the rest of the package the weatherization is is really just making sure that we get items needed to maintain the building and keep it weatherproof and basically satisfy the school facilities board requirements so here's a little before and after of the gym and so some of the themes that from way back in the community meetings were basically school spirit campus colors and so Simone and DLR have Incorporated some of those into these here we're also looking at lighter colors to make sure this can be sustainable one thing to point out when we do get State funding um and correct me if I'm wrong Carmen but the state requires a 10-year warranty on paint and exterior weather station so we can ensure that the money that we're putting towards this is going to last us for the next 10 years so coming to the next rendition we have the 500 building here and so you can see um I know the new building isn't done yet but we're incorporating a lot of the colors and the themes from that new building to maintain campus continuity and make sure you know that all these spaces talk and feel and speak to each other so you can see some of the dark Grays some of the the blues and then some of the light colors into there we have the administration building along with this a lot of the metal excuse what is it called the siding the yeah okay siding you can see it's been it's been scraped um and just damaged from previous trees and Etc and so a lot of that is being touched up with paint um and you can see the rendition here kind of really just freshening up and giving the campus a good look and feel I think I have a couple more here and so uh this is um I think building 400 off a record and so again adding some of the the Higley school spirit with some of their branding the night logo The Shield um and incorporating some of the colors there in addition um this project we're also tackling the the httpa um we figure at the same time this building is not been painted since the existing school as well and so it still has much of the need as the existing campus um so one thing to note with this this is part of the reason the capital expense is so high the sfob will only fund education space and so what that includes are basically the only thing that we are funding is the the 900 building in the hcpa in the 900 building being the field house at Higley High and so those are considered excluded space in in the state's eye and so some of that 600 000 that is District costs are are being funded to to paint and weatherize those two buildings and so um one theme that we wanted to do with the httpa was create a little different space as it is its own space and do a little more of a modern feel and so there's a the dark black with the lower pillars there and then the metal being freshened up as well I believe that is my last slide um just a little timeline again um tonight we're asking for approval of gmp4 which includes weatherization and exterior painting um summer again major construction across the Higley High campus um the traffic flow will begin as soon as we get the final okay from the town of Gilbert they had a few comments regarding the initial permit and so we're working through those right now which is why you haven't seen major construction on that also we wanted to kind of say off of the current traffic flow to try to avoid any delays that they're to the already existing campus so we're again holding all those till summer and then again July 24th first day of school we hope to have a majority of these projects either started and or wrapped up we do know and I will state right now some of these will feed over into the school year we're going to try to eliminate most of the items that have an effect on the students so we're talking the bathrooms obviously the new building those are our first priority and we're going to work through the exterior painting that is something we can do after hours on the weekend that doesn't affect the education environment and so some of those may be saved or go tail into the new year and through fall break so um is there anything I kind of missed okay any questions I just thank you very much this looks great and when the kids and teachers have a nice place to go it feels better I I think and with the school spirit I just have a quick question on you mentioned um the town's comments on the traffic flow are those all addressable comments do you anticipate us still having a fix by the school year or yeah they're they're minor comments and correct me from Ron Patrick but the the comments uh are more or less just making sure that we are taking into consideration all the requirements in terms of ADA and all the sidewalks and um basically anything we're touching that affects the town those are the main areas of emphasis and so um they're minor comments um and so we anticipate having the complete permits back by the end of May so I can hand it over to chase to begin basically construction demolition on that traffic flow perfect I know that's many concern for many parents and students so that'll be great presidential my question is does Higley not do like drama out of the hcpa building or does that not count for the state staff and the Jazz you know you know I'm talking they do Higley head does not have a you know an auditorium as you know they where they use httpa for a lot of their extracurriculars but uh it is what I just said extracurriculars and um unfortunately yeah they're not it's not considered an education space um believe me we stretched as much as we could with the state but ultimately they are the ones who determined that and you know that that is what we're currently approved for those are the two excluded spaces that we will have to fund yeah this is Wade would just like to add a lecture hall in there Jesus any other questions thank you very much thank you moving on to 7.2 Human Resources quarterly ESI report good evening president Schultz members of the board before you have the third quarter report and before I get started on this I just want to say the preliminary board agenda did have inaccurate numbers there was no other inaccurate numbers except what was sent to the board members on Friday and through some mathematical error we came up with the correct numbers and that's what you have before you this evening so the third quarter report states that we did spend an additional 519 and 82 cents and we are at the place where we will be asking in the um action items as you can tell for an increase to this purchase order so you might be saying why why more why more right so according to what we have our records and working very closely with ESI we have an increase obviously in the dollar amount that we've been spending on our subs we have some long-term Subs obviously certified Subs we pay our classified subs from this purchase order as well we also have people that are rehire retired to rehire that we pay as well on ESI that is the mechanism that we use the positive things that are coming out of this is the fact that we have very high fill rates we are at about 90 to 95 percent fill rates for our subs so our students are benefiting from the subs from ESI and the cost that the district is paying we also have some folks who are on leaves such as like a maternity leave FMLA leave so we cover those with long-term Subs as well driving up the cost that we're seeing after this third quarter so in our ask for additional dollars for the rest the remainder of the year that amount will be six hundred and fifty thousand dollars Sanders presidentials I had asked the question I believe I was regarding the increase but um I just want to follow up with my question um to clarify what I was searching for regarding employees taking employees that were leaving taking leave and I guess I didn't state it correctly but the reason I asked is for our policy for um professional support staff generally gcca payment for unused General leave full-time Personnel who have been continuously employed by the district for not less than eight years may receive payment for unused accumulated General leave so I didn't know if maybe that's part of the increase is possibly their well they have moratory ears and they've accumulated some hours there a lot of teachers will try to burn it and I brought it up before of addressing this policy and it's not on we're not talking policy right now but I would love to re-look at this because I looked at other school districts and their policy regarding time frames yes and Tyler said it's coming okay sorry now I have been working with meet and confer and he can speak to the policy at this moment yeah president Schultz Miss Anderson um I just remember meeting the first half are here today we've been working on this uh policy and so we had a little bit of a delay with Miss Martin's leaving um she obviously was a main part of being conferred so this policy we just had our last meeting confer meeting we did we do have a red line version ready to bring we felt that it was too soon our meeting was just last week so it was too soon to get on this agenda I do anticipate having that for a first read on the June 7th but we did that was one thing that came to um to conversation like we had eight years is a long time and are we really incentivizing people to stay and so um you'll see in the recommendation that we're going to be reducing that and then um you know kind of incentivizing that payout scale a little more and in the hopes that people hold that because there is a little more incentive to have that leave accumulated uh when you do leave whether the reason whatever reason that may be so hold tight that is coming uh and that will be soon presented to you so sorry just so I understand um so we want to consider lowering the eight years yeah I think we can have that conversation on June 7th I just want to answer Miss Anderson's question uh but we will bring that recommendation for a first read on on June 7th so okay on that policy thank you any other questions president Schultz Mrs Reese just as I I'm looking at the report [Music] um any idea why so much in the third quarter well one of the reasons is that legislation we have legislation like ACA Affordable Care Act and we also have proper 206 which allows an employee to have sick time to utilize their sick time as needed so the general leave that we're talking about when employees need to be out they're out I think we're seeing a shift as well when people are not feeling well they're staying home and they're taking care of themselves and that helps to bring down the sickness spread right so I think that's what we're seeing at this point I really can't attribute to anything else at this moment okay thank you presidential and board member Reese something else that might be or at least looking in because I know that we still do blackout dates considering how much testing is fourth quarter if I you know as a former teacher know that I need mental health days of you know just taking time off or planning for specific things doctor's appointments Etc if I have blackout dates fourth quarter coming up and I need to get certain stuff I will try to fit it in where I don't get penalized so that could also be part of it clarify that's why their third quarter was so okay perfect thank you that's what I thought I just because fourth quarter has testing correct right um and other like end of the year stuff that they flattered or like you just so third quarter has less of that president Schultz and just so I understand so it's hard to compare you know month over month when we look at the termination and resignation lists unless I combine them and Excel and then sort it by date but um so since I think you asked about um as far as getting a report back to January 1st now some of these have been on the list since January 1st as that it just keeps being added to is that when the list is by the month of resignations or terminations that we have or retirement so each time it comes to the board those are current because they're current okay think in our um weekly report it was the same amount as last year correct at this time it actually was we looked at the month of May and June and we were at 82 this year and 100 last year okay so less sorry so it was less than last year for those for the May and June uh not excuse me April and May excuse me perfect thank you any other questions thank you Mr Johnson moving on to 7.3 special education Day School report fiscal year 23 third quarter um Mrs Miller good evening president Schultz members of the board this is the third quarter update of our private day schools that I bring forward every quarter um with you you can expect the final update coming at the end of the fourth quarter as well as the request for the approval for the um next school year so this is where we currently stand the amount brought forward originally is just an estimate as this is kind of a moving Target we don't know what to expect and as you can see we anticipate staying within the requested amount this year questions thank you Mrs Miller thank you 7.4 textbook adoption presentation foreign good evening president Schultz members of the board here to talk to you a little bit about conceptual physics and just provide an update of where we are in the process of adopting a textbook for this course conceptual physics is a middle school course it's a science course taught at both of our middle schools focusing on the applied ideas of physics I think like Newton's Laws motion waves Force using all those ideas in a real world application and so that's where kids get to really encounter these ideas so that's the course that we're talking about for this so on January 9th of this year 2023 this is when we began the process that's where rfps were issued and those phase one evaluations of the RFP submissions came in on the 16th of February at that point we determine which textbooks were suitable to go to that next level that phase two this is where the teachers who actually teach the courses were given a period of time to evaluate the materials and use rubrics to be able to provide their own input and feedback on the characteristics and qualities of the textbooks those textbooks then went on display on the 1st of March and they continue on display for the public they're right outside this door so anyone who wants to make a an examination and a comment there's a QR code that allows anyone to provide specific feedback about the books and we'll leave those on public display all the way through the 7th of June of this year so they're available during normal business hours for anyone to come in and take a look at those back on March 30th we had our publisher presentations where the vendors representing the two textbooks that we have available came and they spoke directly to the teachers that were a part of that group and anyone from the public that was welcome to attend and at uh this point tonight I'm giving you the update here we are on May the 10th but I'm excited to announce that next week on Tuesday right here in the governing boardroom at 4 30 we're going to hold a community meeting so that any members of our community can come in and uh get a closer look at the materials and give any feedback that they have about conceptual physics specifically about the materials that we have I think I'm going to be able to have at least one of the teachers who teaches a course on hand being able to uh to be there and answer any questions and speak specifically about the uh their needs and the things that they look for and what makes a good set of materials specific to this this particular course which is usually taken it's kind of an accelerated course so for middle schoolers to dive into physics at that age and Stage and then at that point we hope to bring back final recommendations taking in all the all the information input from the teachers from community members from the public display and bring all those together with a recommendation for you thank you Dr treat um if they missed this meeting or don't hear about when the community meeting is that's it's on our website the information and then also goes out in an email to tell people parents community members president excuse me presidential the communication went to the entire Community already in the middleware of this that went out I think the last Thursday yes I believe it was Thursday I'm so sorry I was I missed the email so I'm sorry again no it's okay I have the information last Thursday okay I I was yes I understand why I missed it no okay thank you any questions yes was there communication sent out that it was on public display because I don't remember receiving that as a Middle School Parent do you know when that went out uh board member Van Hook those were on uh the website as far as the notifications we've had our process and our timeline as well as the rubrics available all the way throughout this process so the notification was within that timeline on that section on our adoptions for this year so it was just posted on the website and not necessarily in the email went out letting parents know that it is on display from March 30th that was the notification the no the one the display from March 1st to June 7th I'm sorry yes that was the notification on the website at that point that the public was welcome to and and still are they're still on display today so if the public doesn't know that it's happening and they don't go to the website they would never know that it's on display correct that's where the notification is yeah and and and this is why I believe it's important to send out an email like we did with the community meeting because if parents don't know that something's on display they have no reason to go to the website they'd never know to go to the website and and look at something and you know I think in most cases unless a parent needs something they don't visit the website um so this is the first time I'm hearing that there was a public display that's been happening since March 1st so if we could possibly send an email out letting parents know that this is open until June 7th I think that that'd be really good because I'm sure most parents aren't aware thank you Dr retreat so parents have until June 7th and then the community meeting is May 16th just to confirm thank you very much I I had a question I'm sorry I'm sorry um will the community meeting be recorded before people who cannot attend yeah awesome yeah wonderful vice president Anderson we can work to make that happen for sure um just like we were toward these so okay thank you and there's two conceptual physics teachers one at each school or if we hired more since one of these schools one at each School two were there any other science teachers that from other subject areas that yes we had one other teacher who is qualified to teach that course but is not currently teaching the course that individuals expressed an interest in the future and wanted to be a part of the process okay and did to be a part of the committee or did anyone anyone from the high school no for the transition yeah no no one no one else participated okay all right thank you last thing and anybody can answer this is when do we go to summer hours just so the community knows the hours that they can come to the district or when to look for that I don't know the date connect excuse me president Schultz we can add that to the email notification clarifying that it's still here and here are our summer hours so we'll take care of that perfect thank you very much thank you I think that's all now thank you oh no sorry sorry I apologize um what where remind me I apologize I don't recall from our last meeting when our community newsletters going out and is that something that we can put in it if it will catch um the information send and can we do it moving forward vice president Anderson we sent it through a separate email identifying um when this event would take place on the 16th here at the district office so please clarify for me what you're asking I was just asking in addition to or to emailing on information can our the community newsletter or forget what we called it the um the new thing we're sending out announcements on the main website okay um as well so we can ask schools to put out on their weekly newsletters okay president Teresa's yeah when we talked about sending out the Higley um that magazine thank you that she talked about in her PR initiative the for or marketing initiative that we would be sending we're going to re do those and start sending those out to the community and I think Mrs Anderson's asking when is that going to go out and because this goes through June 7th is that something that will make that thank you for clarifying the question so probably the the when we're talking about doing again those newsletters they're going to be more like informational that it isn't date time sensitive because they might be quarterly and we'd hate for it to it won't probably go before we send before the June 7th because that was part of the goals for next year to relaunch those as part of our kickoff so this would be utilizing the emails currently we use the emails and announcement in our website all the same so when the emails go they're also on the website so we double do them so for instance if a school newsletter goes home it's also sent through an email and on the website that's what we're currently doing now for for timely things that could expire by the time it would go to print if you will and that way it's more more timely and and it allows us and allows families to customize how they want to receive that communication presidentials this um kind of another example of how are we going to communicate with our community that don't have kids in our schools because this does this could be information that other people who who have kids attending Charter Schools don't have you know things like that this could be of some interest to them see what our curriculum is perhaps it could help you know decide as my kids get into high school this is a good curriculum this is their path that we they would be interested in um and just to be interested in what we're teaching so um again we kind of talked about that before at our at our Retreat on how to look at how we can communicate Community as a whole um because we still have lots of families that don't necessarily have kids in our schools that could be interested in like Mrs Van Hook said they're if they don't know something's going on unless they make it a habit to check our website on a regular basis they wouldn't necessarily know this is happening so just another thing to keep in mind on how to communicate bigger things like this even if it's just a small little postcard hey textbook and adoption look at our website something to to steer them to the website not doesn't have to be long what's the presidential was the the previous textbook adoption for science was that emailed out or was it done the same way uh president Schultz vice president Anderson if you recall we actually had a very similar conversation and what happened is it went into the newsletters of all the schools and this was a much larger adoption but very similar in its stature that again this was a one uh course last time it was the entire science but yes it went it went in all of the newsletters for all of the schools during that window time okay and if you remember nobody came to check out the curriculum except for Mrs Wilson um was the only one that came and signed in and out um and yes we peaked when we were we went to the rooms and we looked at it yes um but that signed in and signed out so if this is important to you as a community then take this time between now and June 7th and attend the community meeting and also if you have kids that are interested in physics and the district then this is a great time to see what the program is and the classes that we're offering here at Higley thank you Dr treat president Schultz can we acknowledge our district level instructional science coach Kimberly Morton can you stand up and wave thank you she has worked very hard to take care of all of our teachers and our students and today we had some exciting news we went to Higley Traditional Academy the third grade teachers showed us their ecosystems in their classrooms and were raving about how much they loved the curriculum so it was a positive thing to hear that they're enjoying it and that lady back there has worked really hard along with Dr tree thank you Dr treat can you repeat what system that was again ecosystems yes oh sorry this is accent I'm sorry presidential board member Van Hook we got to walk into the jungle the desert the Arctic the ocean and they had transformed their rooms with poster boards of learning all over and the students could not have been more proud and they were sharing they wanted to share their work so we happened to be there to hear from students reported over graduate and they had to pull this in to show us we want to show you our science so it was pretty it was pretty wonderful that's awesome I'm guessing there'll be pictures in our weekly report yes okay perfect I can't wait to see thank you very much all right Mr Walker moving on to 7.5 student code of conduct information good evening president Schultz members of the board tonight come forward to present to you an update on the code of conduct heading into the 2324 school year so it's a couple pieces of information especially for newer board members just what is the code of conduct it is our our document our public document that supports governing board policy jic which is student conduct it summarizes the district's behavioral expectations based on both School law and governing board policy and it serves as a point of reference for disciplinary procedures for Teacher students Administration in the community so last year we brought the code of conduct to the board as an information item uh June of 2022 that was the first time that the conduct document had been brought since 2017.

now my guess is they will come up with a solution just like with 301 to not Sunset it but given the Dynamics in the politics there's no guarantee that's going to happen and so therefore you run the risk in 25 of having to cut salaries or cut positions because you just lost 285 or 290 000 and so so I just put that up as as a general reminder as we look out and say hey we don't want to do anything this year we'll get to some conversation about 24 well we don't do it 25 well then do we should we do it 20 or 24 should we do it 25 so those are some of the conversations that we just have to have and decide what we want to do just to give your perspective because there are some timelines if you guys decide to go out for one we would have to call it at the next board meeting January excuse me June 14th because we have to notify uh Pinal County that by early July that we're going for the election uh then there's a whole bunch of steps to go ahead and get Pro con statements and and statements of writing up we're trying to do so this is very simplistic in what your deadlines are but there's there's a number of different steps they'll have to take place there'll be resolutions that the board will have to to vote on and so all that in line for an end of September where you mail it mail the voter packets out and then you get uh voter registration and and early ballots out and election on whatever it is the second Tuesday after the first Monday in November so you got a pretty squeeze timeline and again in the old days you can come back in March or may but not anymore you you're bound by only November statutorily and so if you decide not to go out for it no big deal but then the conversation is uh we don't do anything until 24.

and again that's okay but that back to the point of that does mean we have a couple years where it's going to be uh probably a little bit tighter so um I would hesitantly say let's give it a shot my other concern though to be honest I watched it uh quite frankly when I was in AJ if you start the snowball rolling downhill and it's not a positive snowball it starts to gain Steam and you fail at one time and then you fail it a second time and then you fail at a third time that's happened in Florence um several years now and that's why they haven't gone out the last couple years so and I don't want to sound wishy-washy and that's why I want to get your perspective too because it's not going to be an easy it's going to be a tough Hill to climb if we do it in 23.

um that also takes into consideration the 9 million dollar The increased one million dollar transfer from mno to Capital so that's a revised budget from number two to number three has an increase of uh 144 000 but that does show an increase if you remember in December we did have about 30 students lost in terms of ADM so we did recapture some of those from December to this revision so the main increases again as I alluded to is is mostly due to the additional transfer to the capital fund so in December we adopted a budget revision uh number two and that capital budget was 28 million 243 850 dollars um we're revising tonight to 29 million 243 855 again that captures the increase in ADM but the main increase here is obviously that million dollars and increased transfer from mno to Capital to fund those projects that are pre-approved from the school facilities oversight board um and then we'll reverse that transfer when we get to our fiscal 24 budget but this lets us move forward with those projects with their commitment that they'll fund those July 1 but we do need cash to to proceed with those projects um and so that allows us to do that for this summer so that Capital difference is an increase of just over a million dollars which is approximately three percent and that's it so really uh just a recap um you know there was talks about doing a budget Revision in April um but as we know the resolution passed for the AEL um and happy to report too that this morning there is a there was a resolution for fiscal 24 already so uh that's a relief knowing that we can go to the next fiscal year without that uh basically limit over our heads and we can budget and plan accordingly to our fullest budget capacity so tonight I presented the third budget revision again this is the last budget revision for fiscal 23 and that to basically reconciled up to that 100 the ADM numbers and this is what we'll adopt later this evening or recommendedly receiving for the board so with that if there's any questions I'll be happy to answered at this time it's also appropriate that if the public has any questions then you may do so at this time during our public hearing regarding the budget what presidentials do you have an idea of what the amount will be for next year with the budget passing I just got those numbers today so I I do preliminary have those I don't want to say those right now because I do need to like run the numbers and make sure I I what I say is factual um but some of the highlights include um we did realize the two percent increase in terms of inflation we included that in all of our budget presentations when we were talking about tentative approval that was one assumption that did come to fruition as actual inflation is north of seven percent the other increase there's some other increases that I think I feel like I can highlight in June when we talk about a proposed 24 budget and I have time to digest those and present those um actual numbers and what they mean for Higley thank you other questions thank you Mr Moore it is important that we are able to do those summer projects and so I appreciate moving the money for that there's no other questions at this time we will re I make a motion that we reconvene in Open Session all those in favor all right request to speak we value input from our constituents this time on our agenda has been set aside for anyone from the audience who wishes to address the board those that wish to speak should have filled out speaker cards which are due prior to the start of our meeting members of the board may not discuss comment or take action on matters that are not specifically identified on the agenda therefore pursuant to ARS 38-4 31.01 H 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 a decision at a later date also we ask the audience members to please practice proper public meeting decorum refraining from either negative or positive responses including clapping or verbal outbursts to ensure fairness to All Points of View those that refuse to follow those rules will be asked may be asked to leave speakers please limit your remarks to three minutes thank you for your cooperation our first speaker is Tiffany Benson foreign [Music] Higley governing board I'm Tiffany Benson as public servants under oath we expect you to obey the law respect the office of governing board member and maintain decorum in public meetings we don't expect you to Aid and abet the exploitation of minors but on April 5th you approved BrainPOP as part of husd's Technology curriculum students as young as Pre-K are exposed to sexualized content and gender propaganda in your schools there are only two genders so gender propaganda is stupid male and female is all we have there are no changes and if you think otherwise your anti-science also on April 5th a board member violated open meeting law when she corrected a speaker about the GSA Club on campus the club is chartered as gay straight Alliance and run by students but the parent company is genders and sexualities Alliance and it's run by adult predators brainpops social media social media also contains discussions on black lives matter SEL and social justice this is CRT by another name since the fake Governor vote vetoed SB 1305 the left is taking its Liberty but did you know that social justice and transgender ideologies are actually secular humanist doctrines secular humanism is a Godless philosophy based on human reasoning and secular morals and ethics it's actually a religion that's protected by the First Amendment and you can read about this in American humanist Association versus Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2014.

so we conducted an external comparison an internal review and had a legal examination of the existing documents our findings was that the document was relevant and appropriate but there were changes that needed to comply with legislative changes and then we would shift our Focus to a handbook that contains the code of conduct moving forward because there's lots of information that was in the code of conduct but the connotation denotation of the code of conduct is it's the consequences we want to front load the expectations first and then have the consequences follow so we're in the process and I'll talk about that in just a second if I were kind of reframing the approach to that so the work this year code of conduct task team was formed a representation from both sides of the feeder system comprising of secondary Deans aspiring administrators Counseling Services special education student information and legal the cabinet and Ed Services teams met and discussed the document we brought back items for a discussion to the uh to the to the code of conduct task team who then brought information back to their admin teams the team met again we reviewed changes and then we submitted to legal for a final review of the document Tas team consisted of following people representing from all sides of the district as well as different departments that have involvement along with representation from Udall Shumway for our review the findings for this year you know as we did a pretty extensive review last year there wasn't really a lot of information that was tended to change but it does support our intentions and the number one intention of the document is that it serves as a purpose to keep a safe and orderly learning environment for all of our students support our teachers and our administrators and our families it follows some sort of sequential Progressive discipline so it creates a learning opportunity for students so our main focuses of this year was to maintain a K-12 articulation so the progressive discipline is appropriate for students who are K-12 students and so they understand and learn the expectations early and then they can adhere to them for their time throughout the time in the district we also focused on Transportation bullying and harassment hazing and then due process for especially for long-term suspension and expulsion so the steps taken was to review the sequence of progressive discipline for all of our grade levels to better align them based on the input from the teams we worked with the transportation task team to to for one to be able to support transportation to maintain a safe and orderly uh route on the bus while supporting drivers while also supporting students creating a learning opportunity but also focusing on the safety on the bus and then legally review things that are connected to legislation such as hazing and bullying procedures and then we also sent several members of this of the staff to the trust training on on due process our next steps is the format the code of conduct so it becomes that chapter within the handbook and that handbook will present it as an information item in June and then ultimately translate the document into Spanish publish it on the district and cite web pages implement the acknowledgments and student view and parent view and then continue on with best use and consistency training ongoing throughout next school year and then repeat this process on an annual basis and bring back to the governing board any any changes or any trends that emerge from the review of the document any questions about that one president Schultz um what is changing in the bullying policy the policy is not being brought forward to change it's the procedure and making sure that the sites are following a procedure that's uniform across the district got it I I have heard from several parents that of their kids being bullied and nothing's being done about it and that's that's very concerning to me kids should feel safe when they're at school and when a child is being bullied it I'm sure makes them not want to be there and I I never want any child to feel that way um there is one incident that I noticed on social media today that I will share with the um with you later this evening but um similar situation a child is being bullied parent has gone you know to Administration and doesn't feel like it's being resolved so I want to ensure that um whatever policy that we have in place that the staff is trained on how to handle situations and that they do take it seriously when a parent brings forward any concerns president Schultz board member me too thank you thanks thank you I think that any other questions good perfect moving on to 7.6 first read of policy jica student dress which is also Mr Walker president Schultz members of the board tonight we bring forth a first read on governing board policy for student dress preferencing this policy read this is a very polarizing and controversial subject so we're bringing forward a policy review because the last time this policy was was approved was in 2001 and so this was one of the results of last year's code of conduct discussion in June and that there was some Antiquated language and there's maybe some discriminatory practices that were outlined in the way that the policy was read so we consulted with the policy team as well as sought legal inputs and this was the uh the result that we're bringing for first read was legal recommendation for an update to the student address policy presidentials as I put forth in my my email the area that I have the most concern about would be the area that talks about exposes the wearer's mid-drift undergarments or undergarment areas I often find that disproportionately impacts individuals who wear bras or bra straps those types of things and I know that we had some of the language in the the part that's like crossed out specifically like if your genitalia is exposed your chest those types of things I think I guess my only concern is we move forward with whatever statements that we make specifically is I I feel like the areas of concern that I have are people who are disproportionately impacted by that beyond that there are certain aspects as far as like how it's in forest and I recognize like for the most part because I mean I taught here over a decade ago and the way things started and how they enforce versus today even if this hasn't been updated since 2001 obviously our our enforcement has kind of changed with how style has changed how kids have changed Etc I just would like to make sure that we look at language that includes aspects of that um like for example also like the where's mid drift my I mean we have stomachs like at the end of the day I think some of the things that we do and how we we write or how we enforce some of these things I I just don't see how a that impacts the learning environment of anyone and be there are certain aspects that like I mean as a female especially and it's hot in this state there are there are times you're going to see my bra strap it exists um so I just that's my only area of concern as far as like the things that we continue with that and when we move forward um is that language specific presidential's board member Wade this is one of the reasons why we put this on here for discussion tonight because the policy is your policy unlike other ones where there are pretty legal pieces that are statutory this one it has a opportunity for there to be input on my thought would be is that if we're going to have a policy we're going to have to be sure that we enforce it and so what do you want us to be focusing our time on and hence we're having this conversation with here's an example of some updated language for a dress code policy like to hear some thoughts for you so that we can take that back to our policy task team and begin to look at the feedback you provide us to bring you a draft so this is like as you know not on the agenda tonight for decision this is for discussion being that this is one of your policies and this is something we want to it was discussed about bringing and wanting to be addressed and so let's have a conversation about the thoughts and concerns you have when you look at this so that we can begin to look at that and bring it back to you so piggybacking on what Mrs Wade said is I also have an issue with the exposes the wearer's mid-drift and undergarments specifically that it makes a female feel bad about their body and that were saying that they need to cover up because a way it might make someone else feel and that is wrong in 2023 we shouldn't be doing that there shouldn't be a time when teachers need to make sure a top meets the genes or looking at an inch to make sure that you're not showing a teeny bit of your stomach or part of your stomach right now the style is crop tops and it is very difficult to find a shirt for my 13 year old daughter that goes past her jeans or her pants I'm not saying we all need to be naked or that we all should come to school exposing our bodies but it is more of a waste of time to me for a teacher to point out a woman specifically females um showing an inch of their stomach than it is for them actually wearing what they're wearing in addition we do have bra straps we do have stomachs so I I have a problem with that part of the dress code presidentials um for me I think that as I mean coming kids coming to school it's it's an experience of you got to wake up you got to be there on time you got to do your work you gotta you know I think part of that is is learning to be I mean I know that they're children but learning to be professional um that you have to you know know your environment and I mean having experience in the charter schools and and their you know rules on on clothing um you know I found out some of it to be like way Extreme as far as like you know haircuts and and things like that but um I mean for girls I being a female um I think it's also knowing um how to um not part yourself um out there to be able to have um I don't I can't think of the word right now but just not self-esteem but um knowing that you don't have to show your body parts to be accepted or to to prove that you're female um I mean I I've seen some students with their butt cheeks hanging out and you know I don't think it's I want these girls to know that you don't have to do that to you know to to think that you're important or that you know you stand out for whatever reason [Music] um they should know that they're beautiful whether they're you know covered or whether they're wearing you know a shirt that shows their stomach so you know I I feel differently about being able to cover up a little bit and and learning to be a more professional I agree with that I don't think showing a part of your body is not professional or having a little bit of your party body is not professional if you have your shoulders exposed is that not professional if I'm wearing a dress like this I don't understand the difference especially seeing the style of clothing that is out there right now for just people to pick from I would talk presidential professional attire is how how do we expect our teachers to dress um so no teachers aren't walking around with midriff showing and they're definitely not walking around with their their back end hanging out of their shorts but I will agree that it is terribly difficult to find clothes that cover my body which I've been left to dressing back in my days as I was as a tomboy everything I wear is sport shorts and a t-shirt because that's something that I can really find that fits well this is going to be a difficult conversation because there's going to be disagreeances on how we raise our children and how we find what is appropriate for our children and then we're trying to make decisions for other people's children's children what I want to point out is the statements that I've heard from teachers where I teach about how the adults feel uncomfortable with the clothes and the body parts that they are seeing on these children so we need to make sure that we take in that into account when we make decisions whenever males and females are seeing girls with very short shirts and very short shorts and their bus busting out um I'll just I'll just stop there but that's the point we need to make sure we understand teacher professional attire so when we talk about what's professional attire let's go look at businesses and let's see um out outside the schools what's going on in businesses and what is their attire if we're going to address professional attire and also how do the teachers feel what are they what are their thoughts about some of the dress that they're seeing around the school especially when we're we have had instances with behavior between teachers a teacher and a student in issue before presidential I'm kind of back and forth on this I I hear everything that you and Mrs wader talking about the hard part is is that we say exposes the wearer's mid-drift and like you had referenced you know some things are crop tops at what point does it stop at what point is it too much because we don't specify we just say midriff what what is what's what's midriff defined as to then if someone's wearing a sports bra that that could be well it's like a crop top my midriff's okay so it I think the hard part is um is defining and we're at what point where does where does that stop and and it's always a fine line like Mrs Anderson said everyone in this topic is going to have different opinions different thoughts um based on our own personal um appropriate style I I agree when I had my great niece and nephew and she had really long legs and to try and find shorts that were not were not booty shorts that actually covered her entire butt was very difficult because she was skinny and she had very long legs um so I hear you with the style of clothes and what's available out there too makes it a little bit more difficult um on what we can find um and Mrs Anderson you know that's a great point on um the part of adults being comfortable or uncomfortable and it's hard because this is a district policy and we know um the younger we are and how very innocent that starts and it's just someone's stomach and it's it's no big deal um to you're getting into high school and you're getting into the older high school and Mrs Wade I appreciate how um or Mr President Schultz you said you just don't see that disrupting the environment well um when you have boys and girls and something could be potentially exposed then and hormones that that could be disruptive to others um just on a natural behavior um and so it's like how do we keep not having them distract each other um so I think I think the hard part is is that we're trying to get away from defining um to a point because teachers don't have time is this long enough here's stand up put your arms straight down or your fingertips you know does it go below your fingertips and I I think we're away from those days but the hard part is that what does that mean I mean is there a portion of the midriff that's okay and then there's a portion that's not um and so this one is particularly hard and I agree it is definitely just proportionate to females I know that people are going to be likely to address a female um in this fashion than they would have male not trying to pick on any particular group I'm just using it as an example you notice your football players when they're wearing their football shirts jerseys game days their bellies are exposed I mean you see the belly buttons who I you know and so are they going to be more apt to address a male like that probably not so I think it's I don't know what the answer is on how how do you define how do you figure out the enforcement um and things like that and across the district and at what grade level does it change does it change at a grade level um and the first thing I thought and we've done so well at this and it I think it's just the timing I have found it to be pretty amazing if we were to take this to our students and ask them what they feel is acceptable nine out of ten times they're harder on nope they shouldn't do this and they shouldn't wear this and they shouldn't wear that um but I would like at some point um that we do check with our students and we're up here talking about what may or may not make someone comfortable or uncomfortable it's their learning environment and I agree there's a point because you have adults there too but it's their learning environment too so what what does make them comfortable and uncomfortable um so that's just a thought I I would like it at some point um that we see with their their thoughts are on on dress codes and what they would find appropriate not appropriate but I have found that they're harder on their own peers than than we do so Mrs Wade sorry to to add to what board member Reese uh expressed I do believe that at the end of the day when we give kids the opportunity to um be individual humans and allow them responsibility and choice that they routinely go above and beyond and I recognize that people make mistakes because we're humans and you know that happens I have had the benefit of working in multiple schools and in multiple States and I have had a school that had a simple dress code of no Gang Related no drug related and violence and learning went just fine we have higher institutions of the same thing where you could our group arguably you know Express that the interactions among students are far greater and more intense and learning happens just the same I find the message that we are expressing to our children to look at their bodies in a sexualized nature we routinely have people in the community come up and talk about how they're concerned with our efforts to sexualize kids and in my opinion that's what this does completely and for each individuals that have their own beliefs within your household and those types of things nobody is telling you that you have to change how that happens right because it is up to your choice when you come to the school to do these types of things and as far as staff members are concerned we also are adults and have the capability of recognizing what is a disruption in the classroom and what is not a disruption in the classroom and with respect to time you're right I don't care what you're wearing as far as day in and day out and when we have other types of things as far as spirit days where I came to school dressed as Jabba the Hutt I go what are we talking about with respect to professionals like these are kids they're not in a job and I recognize that at the end of the day this is the most job that they have but we need to allow freedom to exist as humans and find themselves in the safest space that we have available to them which would be that of primary schools Secondary School Etc and I think part of the reason that kids find themselves so judgmental of everyone else is because we are pushing our ideals and morals and judgments on to them in those circumstances and at the end of the day we are all now of the age in which we look at stuff and are like my God right I mean I there are certain things that I'm like we left that style to die in the 90s and yet here it is um but that's not for us to see right I I think at the end of the day the efforts that we are making we all have the same goals in mind and to give our kids the freedom of being human beings and at the same time not saying that one person's body is sexualized and and targeting it in that way because that's how it always happens and it always happens and if we reaffirm it with these types of policies it will continue to happen for generations to come because that's what was done to us and so I'm My Hope Is and I'm asking at the very least to consider we obviously have time to make changes and assessments before we do that but to consider where we are at and what our position can mean for our young daughters and sons as they progress because the same is true for for my son in the same way that he deserves to understand that a person's stomach is just in fact their stomach we all have them some belly buttons are weird and that's okay this is way I agree with you and well Mrs Reese and Miss Anderson I understand what you're saying about uh making people feel uncomfortable but I agree with Mrs Wade that we have continually sexualized children's bodies and that's not something we should do and staff feeling uncomfortable is something that we need staff that needs more education or that we shouldn't be sexualizing a child's body to make them feel uncomfortable and especially females and but I do love the idea of getting children's input on this and we could have a committee for everything and a community for everything and we go over policies right so getting the kids input on this at all grade level makes sense to me president Schultz what about parents input um I mean I think parents should be involved in that too um you know my kid might love wearing shorts with her butt cheeks hanging out doesn't mean she's leaving the house like that in the morning um so I think parents input is is important as well um but we can't we also can't sit here and and think that policies like that can't happen I mean it it happens it's it happens every day at my daughter's charter school I mean there's a set policy kids can't wear certain clothing and it is what it is um the unfortunate thing is no we do not want children to be sexualized but the problem is it happens unfortunately it happens not by you know not only by adults but also by other students um how awful would it be if because of you know let's say we don't put a limit on how short a shirt can be and somebody does wear a sports bra to school and whatever and there's an incident and and something happens at school between two students and who's ultimately responsible for that the district um does that open us up for a lawsuit I mean there's so many things that could happen and we have to also consider that we can't have teachers again measuring okay we're allowing one inch two inches three inches um and you know teachers are having to take out a tape measure or whatever um it's got to be one or nothing at all and what option do we choose and does that open us up for liability potentially presidential in Boardman Van Hook I would like to I mean there are a couple things I'd like to unpack with that the first is uh I agree with you that parents matter and as you expressed if you have a problem with what it is that your child is wearing that is something that you should discuss in the home I don't think it's our space to say what somebody should or should not feel comfortable with personally and those types of things and the benefit of having that is it gives the opportunity for individuals to live within their own Comfort uh as far as the idea of what if it happens I recognize that and as somebody who suffers from anxiety I spend most of my time in the what if but I think we also have to be realistic in understanding that we cannot perpetually exist in a space of when other people decide to do action and if you have a situation in which you say what if you have people who have been the victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment wearing with very little Skin showing the clothing is not what's there and if you're concerned with the idea of how do we teach to make sure these things don't happen and that starts with us it starts with us expressing that this is right or wrong my child knows the oven is hot because I tell them no my child knows not to walk up and take something from somebody because I tell them that's not okay when we tell kids that their bodies aren't okay we are reinforcing that aspect and whether we intend to do it or not we disproportionately do it for females versus males and I recognize that there are circumstances of being uncomfortable as a teacher and what you talk about and how you do certain kinds of things I live in uncomfort constantly as a teacher with the things that the students talk about with the things that they are engaging in because they are quasi-adults trying to exhibit adult-like behavior and that is always and perpetually uncomfortable we are trying to police a normal aspect of life and growth in a way that I don't think is reflective of what is best for overall equity and how we can maintain that same process I I literally exist in a space that if we constantly worry how other people are going to respond to what is that saying to our children if you have within your home and that any parent have within their home that that is not what we are okay about and that is not what we approve in our household that is fine that is what you are designed to do as the parent to say that we as a school have to dictate what that is for all of our students I don't think is fair or adequate and definitely doesn't represent equity also I I recognize the idea that an individual showing up in a sports bra but let's also talk about let's say you run track right and it's summer and it's hot and you're outside running track we have swim literally same things in the classroom I'm gonna go with two things one you're gonna be cold and no I will absolutely not turn that air down right like that's that's how it happens routinely I've taught in Maryland and some of the outfits that individuals would wear and be like girlfriend don't tell me you're not cold I'm cold looking at you that's not my space to say what should or should not be done and within the home you have absolute right and control to do so but perpetually trying to avoid the negative behaviors of others by telling them that this is something they should police only perpetuates that negative behavior presidentials um again I we're always going to have some part that we're going to agree or disagree with this is this is going to be terribly difficult to set to say it can be free and open or um set parameters but the point of policy is to enable consistency and Clarity and if we say like jobs say these this is our policy for clothing whether you're a police officer you're a teacher you work in an engineering field or whatever they still have their dress code and policy and a policy again enables us to say okay these are expectations that way we can be consistent with everybody and we're not sitting here playing the game of you and you and not you but this is okay we're going to spend time measuring and trying to figure out every day what is appropriate for this person or whomever so I'm with Christine I don't have an answer for this but the point of policy is sticking to setting it for everybody to follow and go home and dress exactly how you would like to dress but I don't dress how I want to dress at my professional job I can't even wear jeans except for on Fridays unless I wear my Bulldog t-shirt you know boy would I like to wear jeans every day but I can't because that is the policy for dress for the Professionals in my school and again there's little room to no room to give for that so that we can maintain consistency and order if you will as we maintain an academic environment but thank you I would just like to be a part of a solution that doesn't continue to sexualize girls bodies and continues to make girls feel bad about their bodies because of what other people might think or do and that's all I have to say about that any other questions comments concerns and we'll get continue with this yeah president Schultz governing board thank you for the very healthy and robust conversation I think you represent a a multiple parents and this is helpful for us to hear your context so that we can take this back and some of the feedback and suggestions you have and we can decide who else and what else we need to do before we bring back a recommendation obviously this is one that will take us some while to get something that I think that would capture the perspectives that you've shared with us so but thank you for giving us an opportunity to hear what you're thinking about this to help us guide this work on this next step and presidential I just want to clarify too I think parent input is important I think the point like Mrs Anderson brought I look at this as what's considered socially acceptable on our campus and in our schools and then from there parents dictate like Mrs Wade said what's appropriate in their home what's not um what are their kids walking out in and what they're not we've all seen the kids who show up in school and one show up in one thing they come out of the bathroom in another um because obviously they know that that's not acceptable for their home but that that's not for us to handle in police that's between them and their their parent in that aspect but I do think parents options are important and I I look at this as the framework of what we would consider creating a safe socially acceptable campus environment and then their parent goes from there so thank you Mr rocker you're welcome yeah the entire time moving on to action items 8.1 approval of the fiscal year 2023 budget revision number three uh I'd like to make a motion to approve fiscal year 2023 budget revision number three seconded all those in favor aye motion passes five to zero 8.2 approval of GMP number four I make a motion to approve GMP number four for phase two weatherization of Higley High School project to Chase Building team second questions comments concerns I forgot that part no you're gonna all those in favor aye motion carries five to zero eight point three I move that we authorize the authorization of the expenditure substitute teachers increase of Educational Service Inc questions comments concerns presidential this is Reese I just want to indicate I am concerned on this and it does bother me um we're almost doubling our original authorization and our original authorization was already taken into account we increased it from what it was already um we said okay this is what we learned from last year so we're going to give us ourselves some cushion and we're going to increase it and then just in March we said you know what we're going to ask for another increase because we don't want to keep coming back so we're going to try and give ourselves another cushion we're not two months later and we're here again and essentially we're almost doubling our original authorization um I am concerned that um we went over budget in third quarter and we're in this position that essentially we need to approve this because we're over I mean we we've exceeded um so um that's concerning to me I would like to ask I mean ESI is not going away um we're going to have Subs it's an ongoing thing um that we we anticipated some inflation obviously we couldn't anticipate for how much because we had this conversation where like everything's gonna go up we know that it had started we couldn't tell how much but I would like that we look at this all the way around multifaceted what are we spending um how are we spending it um is there any other alternative Solutions uh you know and I know we look at that all the time and it's on your mind as well um as well as how do we address the amount of absences that we're having um and I know that that some have to happen I get it I know people go on long-term leave maternity leave medical leave um but we also can't operate in this fashion we do need our employees to show up we we have our kids are coming whether they are or not um and so I'm just asking that if we're having some repeated attendance issues that those are being addressed because that that is costing the district um I'm not saying we are or not but to look at it multi-facetably that where are we why are we here and what can we do for the future I agree with this and we increase the sub budget we we don't want our teachers to have to use their prep time um and things like that we want to be able to provide subs and and have those for kids um but like I said this this is bothersome to me that we are at this end of the school year we're doubling all of sorry I'll live less than 50 000 we're doubling our our initial budget that we had for this um and we just approved an increase two months ago so um I just wanted to say that and just ask that I know you guys think about it too but just please let's look and see what alternatives we can do how we can maybe better plan um and and see what we can do with that so to that point I that's kind of why I asked earlier about lowering the eight years of service um because I feel like if we lower it we might be in a worse situation because people with less years of service might decide to take yeah so we we need to think about that um when when it comes time to deciding whether we lower that years of service sadly it happens thank you Mrs I agree with you this is why presidentials they have two things one I don't think it's going to solve the concern it's just out of curiosity of our long-term Subs not for medical leave maternity leave those kinds of things how many positions are we filling with long-term Subs because we don't have a certified teacher to be in that position if any like because that would come out of the same fund again it would be a smaller amount in general I recognize and ultimately we would still have to pay the budget because if it's not from the sub it's salary but to my knowledge there are none okay and then the the other thing for the the eight years just for clarify before we go for it and I I recognize it's not something for today the idea behind that is if I'm leaving and I know that I'm leaving and I'm less than eight years and I have so many hours saved up then I just start burning my days because when I leave the district I don't get paid out for them so for example I left after teaching four years and I in that four years with the exception when I went on maternity leave with my son because he came two months early I never took a day and I lost all of that time so that was what Mrs Anderson's question previously was is if you know that you are leaving the district for whatever reason and you know that you're not getting paid out for days you earn you take those days and that could be what her question was referring to earlier seventh any other questions comments concerns all those in favor I all those opposed or any opposed five to zero I move that we approve eight I move I may make a motion to approve 8.4 ratify payroll and expense vouchers second Christine questions comments concerns all those in favor aye motion carries five to zero moving on to 8.5 I make a motion to approve asba policy Services renewal second okay questions comments concerns um president Schultz um I do have a concern with renewing the contract for four years um I was aware that uh Queen Creek uses a different system what I'm not aware is whether that allows them to do annual renewals um I would like to see other options and um you know if there's a cost savings potentially with a different company [Music] um yeah so um with that concern and not having the ability um to do it annually if we decide within the next four years to end the contract then they get to keep 50 percent so um I don't like that president Schultz board member Van Hook we don't either one of the things that we did you'll notice that I received this back in March and immediately they send they start sending you a contract sign sign sign I said no no we're going to take this to the board we have met with the model policy group they're still in the beginning stages of this we're looking at potentially moving over to a different platform but there's lots of parts and pieces as you know we use both advisories as we are looking at that to bring recommendations to you one of the components that this holds is board docs we reached out to uh that this this includes our ability to keep our platform if you go away from that you have to do board docs separately which adds an additional cost so we reached out to asba to determine whether or not they would give us something less than four years and the answer was a resounding no so we did explore that which is one of the reasons the delay in bringing it back because this was the next board meeting since we heard back from them that they would not offer us a single year um so the issue is is that we are not are we do not feel that we are ready to drop everything board docs we have been working so hard to go through those policies and look at both advisories to bring the very very best one and get them good our feeling was until we see that this other one is is functions the way we want it to we don't want to step away from the format um we have a real need here in Higley we like to Higley eyes things so one of the things we've been bringing is the policy advisories from both sides looking at them looking at other examples hearing feedback from those who are closest to it and bringing it to you and either we keep the copyright or we don't at this moment this is the only option we have with asba and as a team didn't feel we were ready to step away from it and weren't able to negotiate they don't give you a one-year option president Schultz so by saying you're using both are you does that mean you're using the same one that Queen Creek is using as well we receive policy advisories from both groups we we because we want both um and they're written a little bit differently both of them utilize lawyers both of them are structured a little bit differently one some are more lawyer friendly some are more practitioner friendly and we like to have both examples so that when we look at it as a team we can determine how we want to if we want to modify or choose one over the other we do it's very inexpensive to just receive the advisories and so we we use both for me like I think it's silly that you know they take state law and put it into their own words and copyright it and then we adopt it as policy I mean it's state law so I feel like we have to follow it no matter what whether we adopt it or not um so when it comes to that when you would let's say dress code policy so when you compare one to the other like how different is it some are more updated than others model policy is still also being developed and when we met with them we also met with them I think in the May I'm sorry March end of March middle of March February March we met with them and and they are still finishing parts and pieces so we couldn't see all of them and so some of them adopted and rolled over our feeling at this time was we like to utilize both examples because sometimes they're very similar and sometimes they're very different and there's different perspectives depending upon the group that who's recently reviewed them the model policy group because they're going through all of them are probably more current and they're using more of a preg you know more lawyer perspective and asba is doing the same you heard last week when we had our Retreat you heard Chris talk about you know one of the things asba had was they had missed an update in an advisory that's going to cause some districts to have to update their policies this is something we're constantly doing and we try try really hard to stay on top of it so again we like having the resources to bring the very best one to it anytime we modify either one of them many of ours have copyrights on them and many of them don't we remove them we have an attorney review it one more time to make sure before we bring it to you some of the policies are pretty straightforward as far as the law some like dress code for just example there's multiple interpretations and recommendations depending upon who was part of creating the policy advisory for the district and is it possible to start getting that information from I forget the name of it the one the one that Queen Creek uses but to be able to get information from them maybe if we did decide to switch to them would they consider kind of buying paying for our fee to move away from asba um if if we can look into those and see what the numbers are and if it makes sense so if we do decide to move to them that you know if they're able to pay for our fee with asthma that we could potentially move even before the four years is up I think that we can bring we have been in conversations with Jen McLennan who has been who's moved over to the model policy group in her team we've met with them we are also because we're kind of with asba right now our goal for us as our team is to make sure our policies are as strong as possible and they are as updated as possible that was something that a newer leadership team we inherited that was not as as comprehensive and as up to date we had hoped so we literally are going through Section by section and we are all about providing the best product and resources I don't have the answers to whether or not they'd be willing to pay it off for us but I know they're willing to work with us because they're going to help us audit what we have to determine our biggest priorities to come for for updates in some of those policies that haven't been touched for a while for instance um dress code so more to come the issue is is at this moment we aren't willing to step away from the platform we have as we're doing this important work with both policy advisories and we're only offered a four-year contract we have email exchanges back and forth with them and they basically said it wasn't an option thank you made phone calls as well tried again um and it wasn't an option you mentioned board docs would be a separate cost what is that cost board docs at this time board docs is the platform that ASPCA uses for their policy and it would be a separate it's a separate we'd have to pay like a subscription okay if we wanted to continue using board docs or you can choose other platforms so my thought would be before we would ever make a suggestion to stop what we are doing we keep all of our policy work going wherever we choose to host it or house it is a platform issue and I think we bring in and have uh the the vendors show it to the governing board to help make decisions as when we get closer to that point and we feel comfortable to go away from what we have to what we want to move toward so at this moment we are paralleling both platforms we do we have one platform we have board docs we're using the advisories from asba but we're also using the advisories as a resource from the trust so we we don't know what word docs would cost us separately I don't have it I don't have I don't have it this I know it's not free I know there's an Acosta I do not have the exact amount of what board docs would be by itself but if we chose to continue to platform in board docs we would end up meaning to pay for that separately and what's the cost of the program the quick the other program the Queen Creek program at the trust and model policy I don't have that the model policy we're piloting right now for a thousand dollars yeah a thousand a year just for the advisories okay but we don't know what their full program would be is it year to year yeah that's a year to year agreement and um yeah currently that's the the only I think it's just a thousand so from year to year so for that service so so if I'm hearing correctly basically we're we're in a tight space given timelines of current things but with with valid concerns as far as cost and those types of things at the very least to look into going for it I mean in terms of like what would board Dogs cost us when you evaluate this the the the aspect of that I think another benefit at least being part of one of these is because as these groups can Lobby directly to state legislatures they're more aware of certain things that will pass or won't pass sometimes as far as like giving us heads up or those types of things so I mean at the very least going forward to look into Costa is smart to do anything quickly or what is our deadline to approve the renewal our our thing expires through June 30th so if you wanted to again they send the renewal to you in in March we probed back we're only given um the only option is a four-year I mean we have two additional meetings where if we wanted to bring back additional information on what is the cost of board docs separately the issue is is to launch this happens overnight uh I mean to launch this doesn't happen overnight and I just don't want us to not have our um platform or our policies that are at our fingers particularly when we're working so hard to get them in really good order foreign so actually I'm gonna let you go ahead and then I just lost my train at that if if this is been going to get tabled or pushed to another meeting um I want to ask this question and if and you don't have to answer today but I would love to know your professional opinion you're the superintendent what is your opinion why would you advocate for asthma why would you want to keep it laughs my I appreciate you asking the question my the reality is is I have a team that's working very very hard to update these policies and to get the content of what is in the policies up to date we've been working really hard to make sure we had a lot of policies that we inherited where there was no additional regulations or exhibits or artifacts we have policies as you know has been a priority in our strategic plan where processes and procedures you've heard that theme over and over and over again well that's because we have policies that aren't being implemented consistently all over the place because there was no regulation in training and follow-through I have been more worried about the quality and caliber of the implementation of the policies and getting them up to date rather than what platform we want to use I I am I this is a Time intensive process um we're hearing just our conversation let's use the dress code as an example if we decide to Branch out our working task teams to involve parents teachers children students to get things done and get them done in time trying to learn a whole new system and how we access those those things in a literally months worth of time before we start school would be a real challenge I feel like I feel like our policies could the quality and caliber of what is in the policies is more important to me at this moment than whether because I'm using asba policy advisories and model policies I want to be able to just keep us in board docs in the platform for a while so we can get them right but I also understand the the concern about the cost for four years if we want to shift them but when we when we're talking about what is my recommendation I think you'll be putting your team in an entirely terrible situation to try and launch a whole new model policy platform all we'll be doing is organizing and formatting our existing old outdated policies into this new format and to me that that would be I would rather is if we're going to make that shift have the policies in great order and have have feel really good about it so again I our team will respond to what the governing board decides and wants to do I will tell you that the timeline is not ideal and yet the contract for four years isn't either is there an option to help incentivize us you know the hard part is I have found is working with other entities they really that that for profit our ability to negotiate is limited to what they're willing to agree to do even even when I tell them our governing board wants this they would appreciate that perspective but may not always do it um I would say that if if we try and do this overnight we're going to end up with with a real hassle so for somebody to reach out to Queen Creek and see what that entailed for them because they were I think because at least when I went to their website it was fairly recent that it happened it was it was just done I would love to know what did it what that entailed for them and how long and how difficult was it and asked her staff and and um they're still using Boardman are they still using board docs do you know um no I don't think so they're building a different platform different it looks different it feels different yeah well my understanding is um Queen Creek moved completely away from asba not only board docs but they cut ties completely um I would like to know um I mean if if we can I guess if I I'd like to you know I don't know um I'd like to make a motion to table this for the next meeting and hopefully we can get some answers as far as what it would cost to have a subscription to board docs with a new company if the new company is willing to um buy us out of you know if if we were to go with asthma and decide we're going to move if they'd be willing to do it they they'd probably say no because they'd probably want us to go directly with them but it doesn't hurt to ask um and if we can have all that detail and then we can make a decision at that time and now you said it would be difficult because it doesn't happen overnight now what would change since we already have access wouldn't that access just continue if we sign the new contract my that would be is if we didn't have if we don't have the other system already up and ready to go and have been organized and had time to transfer it all over to lose access to our system now with all of our policies in there because we didn't renew the subscription would be a problem because right now board docs holds the board docs holds all of our policies and our regulations and things so that if if the transition time to the new platform with all those other pieces couldn't happen in time I wouldn't want us to go in as we're starting the school year to not have immediate access to our new policy manual because this will be a very time intensive process and it'll also require training with our administrators and everything about where we go how we access how we find um how we find that so again it's just a matter of making a big shift quickly overnight and and if possible can we get like maybe screenshots of what that new system would look like compared to board Docs yes thank you I was going to say we have them yeah we have a motion on the table so we need to have a second before we can move to table it I'll second the motion to table for the next meeting any other questions yes question comment yeah I was going to say I had some questions too I was just gonna ask I mean obviously she covered a lot of the same questions but if for me if it could just be a side-by-side comparison what what services I mean we get more than just policies from asba like what does our membership cover what what services and everything does that cover and what they offer and then um with this other company is it just policy what services do they offer the price comparison um and then there are some other aspects to it there's just so much because the law conference is still very good I still think our Administration needs to attend the asba law conference you pay non-member prices which are much greater so I mean if you can if you can look at that I mean even though we pay to attend the law conference and the new board member training in the annual conference the non-member price is much greater so if we can just kind of get estimates I know that's a lot of work I know it's the a bad time of year because we have so much going on um but these are all questions I think that help answer um where do we go presidential um realistically Dr Foley is this information Something That We're because if if it took as long as it did to get some of that information back from the asba I think something else we need to keep in mind is any other program that we switch to is still going to have a cost I get that we pay a thousand dollars for the the trust one out of Queen Creek but that's because we only have a portion of it not the full entity of different things and so like I recognize that the cost of what they charge and the nature of what it is I don't Envision the asba being so disproportionately overcharged because these other programs exist right like I mean that's the nature of a free market is the idea that you're paying for certain programs and if other things that exist they can do the same stuff what is it that we're paying for and I recognize that the timeline is is really the biggest concern and ultimately there is more than just Financial cost if we completely implode what decision it is that we're making without and I don't personally at the present moment in time feel comfortable enough making a decision that might have consequences or ramifications that we can't foresee in the next year because we're trying to get it done in a month and I recognize that that's not by choice how we are at this timetable and so I guess my concern is we are making efforts to move away from something to go towards something else that is equally going to cost and some of that cost is also time and hours and Manpower in order to do the same thing it's further meetings of policies that we've already adapted that we have to routinely do again and and so it's more than just the financial aspect of some of these things so my question is this this this stuff that we're requesting to get Is it feasible to get a comprehensive thing in time for us to be able to make this decision before our contract runs out so we are not getting ourselves in trouble or is the long-term safety might be spending slightly more in the interim for the next four years and I recognize the four-year contract's not great there's nothing we can do about that that's it's like Verizon every time I tell them I hate how much they charge me they know I need them more than they need me kind of deal so I just want to make sure that in our efforts to do this we're not we're not hastily making a decision to try to save cost and what we're saving is merely hundreds of dollars instead of thousands at the grand scheme of things that's only going to cost each one of us the cabinet and all of our staff more hours later because that still has a financial cost to it I appreciate that perspective I think what we will do obviously when you're at the when you're at the mercy of vendors and you're going to be asking questions we'll get back what information we have as comprehensively as possible I think that the amount of man hours that will be on the district team will be substantial in the months that several people may be not here as we prepare to take their earned vacation time uh at a time before we launch a school year so I think I I want to be conservative and careful with funds but for the fund amount for the proportion that it could be problematic my I would lead toward your Pennywise pound foolish conversation is going to take a lot of time my and I shared with you our priority is to make sure our policies are being our policies are in good place and they're being implemented appropriately and that there's good regulations and um exhibits behind them and that's been that's where we have focused our time if we're going to shift into an entire different um piece then that's and and that's the direct the desire of the governing board then our focus and priority is going to shift and what we've been doing and how we're going to be doing it and I completely agree and that's why I'd like some comparison I don't want you to spend a lot of time yeah on I I mean I don't want you to spend a lot of time on the information I just I need to visualize what one offers over the other because I I agree I know that we get more than just policies from asba but I don't know what else this other company even offers so I mean if they only do policy then I yes then that cost is going to be different and I wouldn't want to put anything any of our staff through any of that I just need to compare what the services are I mean what do we get compare um and like I said just a a brief overview of an approximate extra two hundred dollars for the law con you know that's all I'm asking for I don't want you just for me I'm guessing they have that they would have an information sheet that just shows like this is how much more you would pay as a non-member right it's something you can just look at one of their registration forms I'm not asking to spend a lot of time on I just need more of a comparison because I really don't I really don't know what I'm comparison comparing and like you said I don't know what I would be saving if we made a change um between actual dollars to the vendor or dollars to our staff and would we suffer in what we actually get out of it if we left asba so I just don't know I just want that comparison on what the two services do president Schultz so by this agreement this isn't this is just for the board docs and the policies right this is your platform this is this is this is for your agreement for for the policies and your board docs so this has nothing to do with the relationship with asba as far as membership and trainings and anything of that sort this is this is your policies and board docs there thank you okay can we go ahead um if this does move forward with being tabled um I just want to made a great uh comment of and taking in your information about the transition it would take in the time and I do not want to waste any more time I know everybody's working terribly hard um just through each day um so it would be great to get that information but I do want to make the comment I've been to the law conference and I believe the um consensus from last year's law conferences it wasn't really that great um so if we're getting mediocre information and that's what we're paying extra for and trying to hold on to for the reason to stay with them then I would I would make sure that they understand we're not going to continue the service if you're going to give us mediocre conferences you know I've been to one years and years and years ago when I was born secretary and it was great and I was excited to learn but at that time I didn't know what I didn't know also I've been to the delegate assembly and that that was fantastic and it was great to hear the perspectives of everyone but again I I don't know if we didn't go and attend that would that really be detrimental to our district I'm sorry oh okay um I did I did ask the question um for sending the questions early of what percent of their services do we use and how often and unfortunately and I know these questions take up your time and the responses we use resources as we needed but if if we're gonna if this does move forward being tabled can I get can we get a more detailed answer of what are you valuing and using exactly if you can I know that's going to take up your time Dr Foley but if we're truly going to make the right decision I understand that the policies and the convenience um and you and the calibration and everything you mentioned is 100 important and I don't think any one of us disagrees with that but what else are we getting out of asthma and are you finding that you are using and finding valuable to the operations of this District okay sorry thank you well and if this is only the policy and board Docs which I was assuming it was asba so maybe shame on me the way I read it was this is so this is only policy and only board docs your policy Services subscription agreements Okay so yeah then I think the only thing we would need to know or I won't say we I should say I would what is the cost if we stayed with board docs on our own um and what what is this other um offering so just a small comparison because if it's not all that then don't spend all that time um but yeah just a comparison and what is board docs on our own if we got it and um and kind of go from there we would also sorry board member or presidential uh the timeline of switching I I again I recognize that it does not feel good making these decisions with a very tight timeline at all the point is we don't want to lapse in anything because that causes far more problems than anything else and I think all of these questions are valid because the cost and everything else especially if this is separate from being a member or whatever else all that other stuff is and and if this does take time and how we progress for the next four years I I guess my biggest concern is in our efforts to try to save some of this what is the switchover and the detriment that that could cause in the short interim um and I I also recognize that it doesn't feel smart to financially live in that existence but we are unfortunately in that position at the present moment so with that information if if we have time to be able to say okay this is what board docs would cost us and then at the next meeting recognize and understand what that changeover would look like is it a possibility or is there a lapse because if there's a lapse I don't think the benefits outweigh the the detriment and that that cost but then the benefit is we buy ourselves four years of time to come up with answers to all of these questions that take a ridiculous amount of time to do that and we give you then years instead of days in order to be able to provide some of that info completely agree with you on there the thing is we're paying 6 100 right now for policies if we're paying them a thousand and this was 5100 we're paying 6100 if theirs is still a thousand dollars and board docs is I'm just throwing a number out there keeping it simple is three thousand for us to maintain on our own right there we're saving 2 000 per year over the next four years and I don't want to do that to you guys but there is an overall cost to that too so it's information I guess at this point and yes it's unfortunate you've been trying to ask and and it's unfortunate the timing is coming before us um for us to try and get more information thank you for not knowing this so the other asthma stuff is a whole different membership than the delegate assembly and all that so being a member and getting the member prices for those is a completely different entity okay and is there a bundle like if like when Cox used to do that oh if you drop this and all sudden your prices went up and you thought you were dropping a service is that do you does is that how it works with asthma like if we drop the policy Services as our other membership fee going to be different because of that do you know presidentials vice president Anderson I don't want to speak out of turn I really will look at if we will we we will provide additional information and be sure that we understand all the options no apologies currently ready president Schultz um isn't the asthma membership individual based it's per person isn't it it's not District it's per person so technically if if we're not paying membership fees for us we aren't we don't have a membership as board members yeah so we would have to the district would be half would have to pay for our membership for us to get a discount so for instance we went to the um the first class that they offered for new board members um I don't think that that was at a discounted rate because we weren't members and any course offered after the fact in order to qualify for the membership rate we have to become members so um it's an individual membership currently on the table is to table 8.5 approve a 8.5 the approval of ASB a policy Services renewal all those in favor I any opposed motion is denied zero to five and we will look for more information approved I'm sorry yep approved approved approved zero to five yes we will table this until the June 7th meeting printing more information regarding that moving on to 8.6 approval to increase I made commotion to approve the increase the annual cumulative spend for vendors listed below on Cooperative contracts over a hundred thousand for fiscal year 2022-2023 seconded questions comments concerns this is 8.6 [Music] um so I do have one item that's on there um well two items uh there's near pods and there is Renaissance um my issue with near pods is um it's it's about the whole child district-wide initiative which promotes d-i-s-e-l Equitable classrooms implicit bias in classrooms restorative practices restorative justice pronoun shift intro to equity um and I know that there are parents in this District that do not support this um and near pods falls under Renaissance and so it's it's a major concern of mine as well you know some people might be okay with it um some might not be some aren't okay with it um I I believe that it's um you know any curriculum that does this I think is as divisive it's also going to be used if it's going to be used continued use in our district I think that there needs to be an opt-out option um our purpose again is academics and I think by implementing these ideologies we're moving away from that and we need to ensure that we stay with academics um and as far as uh you know Renaissance goes I mean their their entire websites all about Dei um and you know there they have their action we have created a fully organized Dei culture that involves people throughout the organization and is embedded within every structure of Renaissance so [Music] um diversity to create a bias-free Equitable Talent acquisition and employee development process um Equity to promote educational Equity by ensuring our products adhere to strict guidelines for content appropriateness and reflect the diversity of today's classroom um to create an inclusive and attractive company culture for underrepresented employees I know in our district I hope there are no underrepresented represented employees so I I just I want to ensure that um we again concentrate on academics and with organizations I think at some point a lot of these organizations had good intentions um and I think that the focus has changed and uh all these educational organizations are shifting um to these ideologies and it's pretty unfortunate to see um because I think it it creates a division between our community when we're going with you know one sort of belief and and these ideologies and then we're ignoring a whole separate um group of people and when we bring it back to academics and ensure that we're concentrating on academics that involves everybody um I mean you want to talk inclusivity um how how much more inclusive can we be if we're we're paying attention to academics and not these ideologies that's all okay excuse me board member Dan hook we had we've had several discussions with the ed services team so when the decision was made this year to provide the resource of nearpod the training focuses on the Arizona State Standards and using those academic resources embedded within that system so our teachers go through extensive training our technology coaches Valerie Thomas and Janie Ramirez have done most of this training doctor treats involved to make sure that we're clearly communicating the teachers are raving about what a great resource this is in terms of science and math and Ela so there are always there are always things out there that somebody could go grab from YouTube or anything that as professionals we are training our teachers to use this resource for academic purposes and the components within it where you grab the standard and it takes you to the lessons it's pretty incredible it's a really good resource I'm hearing your concerns but that's not the purpose for us using that but what I mean because Renaissance and so is so big on these my fear is that these lessons include these same visions that Renaissance has so are we teaching with these lessons that they have are we teaching Dei and ultimately I mean these are all part of you know we claim we don't have CRT it's in our district but the this is a part of critical race Theory um so do these curriculums contain these ideologies so the components of near pod we have told the teachers how to access the lessons aligned to their standards academic standards they've also been trained that something before you use it and with anything any lessons curriculum books anything we use parents can opt out and we'll give them an alternative activity but the feedback that we're receiving on this particular resource is extremely positive okay so there so there will be an opt-out form available for well we always have a knocked out process that our parents can use so that goes for everything okay I think the Renaissance piece about the assessment package I don't know if we want to wait till um what is it 8.8 because I have Marcus Berkshire here to discuss the assessment pieces within that I mean I I can I can speak on that too I I plan on speaking on that too I know but do you want to come back to that component um after these other items here 8.7 I don't know if we're done with 8.6 it's real Renaissance yes we'll have to right sorry 8.6 is the Trump is what we're talking about now right so we have to stay with this one before we move on to 8.7 I'd also like to say I believe our teachers are following the standards and teaching our kids what the standards are and I have faith in our teachers and what they do in the district and and and never have had a question um I unfortunately have seen instances where um teachers have crossed the line um and I've had this conversation with Dr Foley and you know I I want to ensure that as I've stated before once you teach something you can't unteach it um so yes we want to ensure that teachers are following the law staying within State Standards but you know with what I've seen um that's not a hundred percent of of the case but um I mean I would love it for for it to be but it's it's not always the case so parents are concerned so president board member sorry board member Van Hook if if there occursive situation that we need to address then we work with Administration to address it so I'm not going to tell you but every person is perfect all of the time but our job is to make sure we train and we support our teachers on what they're teaching and how they're teaching it and if somebody has a misstep then our job is to support and improve so which happens in any organization in any uh profession that there's people that you know that that happens but the majority I feel sticking to the standard Mr Swede presidentials uh I I'm very happy to hear the positive feedback I think it is important to recognize that teachers are the ones who have to implement this curriculum and having something in place that makes it to where it is easy for us to see what state standard this aligns to so from a data perspective my kids are not doing well on this unit this specific item and it gives me the opportunity of being able to look at that um I I also think it's important for us to keep in mind that things like Equity aren't a danger the idea of creating a situation in which kids who might have other or differing environments in general in order to be able to process with that and so like for me from my perspective of giving the professional courtesy to the individuals who are using this day in and day out uh I I think that carries a lot of weight on how you manage your classroom and the curriculum that you are responsible for implementing and everything else uh considering I've had to work with Galileo and the individuals who have used those types of things and and understanding the programs and how much we have seen positive changes I think it's important for us to keep in mind the fact that overwhelmingly there is positive feedback for this program giving the idea that if teachers are enjoying it it is user friendly etc for both teachers and students the likelihood of us using it and helping to increase those academics is is really valuable one thing I didn't mention is kids can't go in there and just pick anything they want the teachers have to look at the standards selected and assign it to the kids so I think that's really important and I I do trust our teachers thank you Miss Richardson that's a great point I use I've used your nearpod and I I unders yeah it's a great platform for making interactive lessons um and whenever teachers are optioned I know it's used quite often because you can still continue learning and and they can run you can tell the program to run and make it move forward and quiz them and and anyway um but of course it's I've been on I use kahoot and quiz quizzes and Quizlet and everything I use them all because it's a great programs but of course um I I even took a screenshot of a kahoot which I thought was just a great thing of it was um you know somebody made it because you're you're looking at what other people are making and yeah it had something I found hateful and and you know but as a trained teacher and as my expectations I I said that's terrible and making sure I'm reading through everything and and that that's what I would hope and that and I hope that I know is happening and and we are um following through and making sure that students and parents feel comfortable speaking out if they see or hear anything that they feel like is against what our district is wanting for our students but I would just say all these all these platforms I've searched for lessons like hey if it's already made boy would I like to use it and there has been garbage that has showed up and I know it goes against whatever the district that I work in wouldn't want shown so we as long as we keep training and again keep parents and and students feeling comfortable reporting or or just saying hey what that doesn't seem to go with our curriculum I think that's great and I think this district has done a good job with that all those in favor of approving 8.6 I I post nay motion carries four to one moving on to 8.7 the approval of intergovernmental agreement between greater Phoenix educational management Council and AZ education management Council and Higley unified for fiscal years 2023-2028.

and so some of the topics and then we can start talking about and I just there may be more than this but those are the ones that come up we've had lots of conversations about salary and the reality is everybody to the west of us is on a 15 mno there's an impossibility for us to remain competitive in all sorts of salaries we can dump more money into one employee group at the expense of another employee group to try to make them more competitive but that second employee group will be less competitive with neighboring districts so if you want to try and take care of of teachers that's fine but then there's going to be a problem with with classified staff if you want to take care of classified staff because we're losing bus drivers Etc that's fine but then you limit your funds that you need to go ahead and take care of your teachers and and the the reality is we can get creative we can squeeze we can make adjustments but there's no way we can continue to make up the ground with those districts to the west of us so that's that's a reality and that would be the rationale for a conversation um when do you hold this is it here in 23 uh there used to be you would do it uh in an off year because less people would come out you had a better chance to pass um sometimes they're saying no because in off year the people nowadays that come out tend to just be the high efficacy voters and if they don't like K-12 then you have a tougher time so if you go on a regular ballot more people come out therefore you have a better chance those people that might be favorable to to voting for it would come out problematic for 24 is with everything going on if you if you I'll just keep it simple if you have a trump Biden ticket that's going against each other uh it's going to be a crazy turbulent election section or a session and then you're going to have lots and lots of people participate that may be beneficial that may not be beneficial if you're not strong proponents of public education then it's probably hurt you a little bit in that situation talked about out here we've had trouble with overrides bondsmen a little bit better but I'll just say historically around this part of the valley uh it's been a bit of a struggle uh the further out you get I don't think AJ's passed their overrides and so six nor have I believe they passed the bond since about five or six four five or six I know Florence hasn't gone out the last couple years because they've failed two or three in a row and then our bigger issues too is traditionally you've got 75 percent of all communities yeah people in communities that aren't part of our system so you're counting on the notion that if our employees would just get out and vote it would pass is really a fallacy it's about the people that don't have anything to do with with the district coming out vote our problem is compounded by 50 of the family so of the 25 percent of families that have kids we have over half of those families that are not in our system so now you're going to someone and asking someone to go ahead and increase their tax base or their their tax rate for right for a school that they they go to a legacy or they go to Ala or they go to wherever doesn't mean it can't be done in some cases people will vote for it but obviously it's a unique challenge here in comparison to some other places so I know I've talked quickly I want to leave time for conversation and so really we're at the point of what is the discussion about um what are questions and then more importantly what is this discussion about the notion of the notion of coming or moving forward uh with with some action again uh I just we can't make this is not a action item but the discussion could be based on whatever we want to think about going out a year from now we need to do some research or the discussion could be in order for us to stay competitive what the heck let's go take a swing of the fences and let's go this year it will be different to go this year just because you need to have a pack in place so some of you may say so why are you bringing this to me if it's going to be difficult this year because I want people to understand that the notion of trying to remain competitive is getting to almost impossible and so we can't keep having people have an expectation you know everybody's upset because somebody down the street is paying more for bus drivers or for custodians for teachers or for administrators you're right and and without a bond excuse me without an override that's not going to change if we're saying we're not going to go out until 24 that's okay but the next budget cycle we'll talk a little bit about the budget in my report probably going to be a little bit tougher of a budget cycle in the state for a lot of different reasons I would anticipate that there's going to be a plethora of money coming in that somehow gives us an opportunity to close the gap with those of us those districts that are to the west of us and so that's why I'm bringing it Forward just so we're all very crystal clear that if we decide to go to 24 or 25 or that's direction to research that cool but it will have an impact on next year's budget with that and and then we just have to understand that and then move forward the best we can so open up for questions discussion comments or whatever we need to to just talk about a little bit more when's the last time that we did um a survey on I thought we had a we put out a feeler at some point right we put out a feeler right before um we I think we went with um went with Paul bence who's with high high ground and we got the data if I remember correctly decemberish or January pre-covered and then when we got the information back from them they did the I think they did the their calling survey in in that time frame and they got came back to us uh it was okay favorable if I remember correctly I think their cutoff is 60 62 percent and based on the way they were the question they felt like we were in a position that at least we uh we should consider it whether we decided to go out for or not but then when covet hit and then when we had some of the concerns relative to the start of the school year uh that one went by the wayside and so we never put it out if if the decision excuse me if the decision were to push out for another year let's just say then I would come back to you probably again November December to go ahead and go back out to do another another analysis of um of where the where the public how the public feels about uh voting in in this area so so that would be part of it you guys have any questions um so if you were to say I think this is a good idea for this November what what your what would be your recommendation you know I from a budgeting standpoint I think it's a good idea because we're just struggling so hard to keep up from a practical situation that makes it a little more difficult because that we don't have a pack in place we would have to go ahead and move quickly to get everything for the June 4th uh board meeting and then the question is what do we really need to raise from the pack to get the word out and we just did a survey of our staff and I don't remember the numbers but those people that in our staff that live in in our in the community is less than 50 percent uh it might be 45.55 so it's not tremendously less but but so that alone creates its own set of issues because we don't even have a majority of our our staff that's there now that's going to not change by next year I think that there so why would you bring it for the 23 if there's concerns because the prevailing feeling is that 24 is going to be very very difficult because of the politics that are happening in our country right now so then that means you're all the way out to 25.

there are some districts that still believe in 24 it's okay but I am reading stuff that says there's people concerned uh 24 would obviously give us more time but we run the risk of a large number of Voters coming out just by the nature of the presidential election and that again for some districts their belief is that will help them and they're all for it others are saying ooh that's a bad idea so it just just depends there's so many things happening right now politically with some things even this week that that that everything could change in that political climate for the presidential election by by next year so what is on the 23rd is there anything else that's going out on a ballot or are we going to be it um I'll say for the most part we're going to be at there may be I don't know I have not seen it if other school districts you know are planning on going out I'm going to guess AJ's not to my knowledge I don't believe Florence is so so you're going to have a a very limited uh number of ballot issues in in 23 so that's the other issue that I didn't put up with them we're responsible for the The Lion's Share of the um of the ballot piece do you even know how much that is um I want to say when I was up in a Payson you were running in a at a 30 or 40 000 clip right um and so I'm guessing down here the other issue that's out there there was a report that just came out I think this weekend or maybe this week that of some of the problems that Pinal County had with their elections and it was a pretty blistering report and so you're running six months after a pretty blistering report about problems with the way they handled the last election so so it can go a couple different ways to be totally honest I think the whole state did um so um I just noticed that like being throughout the years that our community was very when we were out talking to people it was like they wanted it to be specific on what was where the money was going they just didn't think that they're they didn't want to just give money to to whatever you wanted to do with it does that make sense they wanted to be specific that's how the we got the bond pass for the pack because they knew exactly where it was going it was going for buses that were on the side of the road all over there it was going for technology so I think parents were on board the community was on board with that so I think that we had to be strategic into making sure that like our community knows exactly where their dollars are going right they're pretty sensitive about that and again if you we have to differentiate between Bond and overriding right um You can do that you have to be specific in both but obviously the bond is saying I'm going to do this this and that to the to my buildings um or I'm going to build a new building or whatever where's the the override obviously becomes an issue because of salaries and even if you're specific in where the salaries are and even if you go ahead because you have to and go ahead and do your report annually about where they go there's still a perception out there that oh it just went to and it didn't go to it got siphoned off type of thing uh the other issue was you know six and six the growth was coming and there were no charters right and so when it passed the kids only had one place to go in 11 and 12 you started to see the charters out here and so where the kids could go started to change radically different and therefore that's the more problematic issue right here right now is 57 percent of those families uh do not have kids in our system uh that may change a little bit over the next decade but I don't think you're going to also have you know 85 percent of the kids in the area going going to our schools that's just not Statewide you're lucky and you're on your best school districts only have 75 percent of their kids in the district there's no school district in the state of Arizona with more than 75 percent of the kids living in their districts attending the the those schools their schools My worry is that they're I understand what you're saying about the budget issues and I totally agree with you my worry is that that those four months really you don't even have four months because those those early ballots go out in September and if they don't know aren't educated in exactly what it's for that's going to be doesn't be difficult no it is because you're right your election your election is effectively over October 1st uh then the majority of people that that get early ballots turn it back in within the first week so those people that are going to go Beat the Streets the month of October like the old style was in many ways the election's already over and so so you really have to do something between August and September if you want to have um uh success and so again if we say we think we want to move forward with um 24 that's okay gives us more time but at least we want to have the conversation even if you say go 25 or bring it back uh next January and we can talk about 24 versus 25 that's okay but we just need to get direction and again also understand the impact when we say no just because um uh and there's nothing wrong with that trust me but but it but when we start having budget discussions which is what we're in the middle of right now we just need to understand that that it's getting harder and harder to squeeze dollars and dollars out I will tell you right now you'll get the confidence of the surveys that we've done you'll get all that information but pay in compensation is is very low rated by our employees and so so there's a thing here that says you're not paying us well enough but absent us doing this over here that's not going to change so we just have to recognize that not only the board and administration but also employees that absent this piece over here that you can wish one hope and pray all you want but it ain't going to happen without an override and so that becomes part of that conversation in part to also let the public understand what that means and so parents you can be upset with what our pay scale is but the everybody to the west of us is on the 15 plus and if I had 15 extra Julie can we do anything with 15 more money yeah and so we could go ahead and become more much more competitive and so we just have to recognize that if we're going to push it out to 24 or 25 and and that's okay I just want to make sure we're all having ongoing conversations about it so I think it'd be oh go ahead I think it'd be helpful to see uh you know what what will it cost to get it back going what what do we think we need to raise um what so the pack we can't do anything with that um no I know that but I'm saying you know who would who would we get to lead that who do we get to run it you know who their because there are Consultants out there you know how much would it cost I would like to see you know if we were to do this what what's the cost of the district and what would they recommend and all that kind of yeah I don't I I will suggest that the cost will be but I'll get I'll get the particulars but based on what's been done in other districts I've been in I'm guessing we would probably need to raise in in the in the range of 40 to 50 000.

Article 2 Section 12 of the Arizona Constitution says no public money or property shall be appropriated for religious exercise or instruction so by adopting BrainPOP or any secular humanist curriculum husd is breaking state law I encourage Educators to use their Liberty to teach real science real ethics and use biblical principles to counter humanist doctrines they're free to do this under the First Amendment and under article 6 of the U.S Constitution which is the supreme law of our land if anyone who wants to blow the whistle on husd visit schoolboardwatchlist.org and submit an investigation request lastly the left likes to mock the word grooming when we use it but it's actually a nice word when it comes to board members and administrators like those in husd I prefer the term pedophiles by proxy because that's what you are I'm Tiffany with Turning Point USA speaker is Heather buck hi everyone um good evening to our governing board president and governing board members and our cabinet thank you for having me here tonight I just wanted to take a minute to tell you all how great the Fine Arts Festival was that we had at the end of the month uh last month the art exhibits by the students were tremendous it was well attended in addition to Art we got to hear trash can bands and see orchestras and hear choirs and the community all came out and it was just really great support and a very positive event um I do want to thank all of the staff members and students that worked so hard to put that great event on and it just really shows the dedication of Higley and how important it is to put our students first thank you thank you Miss Kathleen Richards Mrs I feel like I'm back at a forensics competition uh good evening board members uh thank you for all of the presentation this more this evening of all of the students it was really great to see some of the extracurricular activities that all of our students partake in I have the pleasure of running a drama club at our one of our elementary schools HTA and it's been amazing to see what the Arts can do for these kiddos in the classroom and the way it can help both their academics and their social well-being as they move forward the reason I wanted to talk today is I was listening to the radio and I happened to hear a podcast through KTR which had one of our board members on it in that particular podcast there was a lot of vagary and potential misdirection of information so I wanted to clarify something because as I listened to it I realized as a parent I didn't necessarily know what mtss is and I wanted to take a minute to share some of the information in case there are any parents out there like me who were wondering because it certainly sounded very scary in the Nine Minute Podcast but what I found was actually really reassuring so mtss stands for multi-tiered system of support it is a tiered framework using data-based problem solving to support academic and behavioral needs now I have spent many years in a classroom as well and it is impossible most times to separate academic struggles in children all the way through High School from behavioral issues that they may display there so what we have is a tiered system that's designed specifically to make sure that the academics are caught and caught quickly and treated with whatever academic intervention is necessary tier one is simply the core instruction tier two is targeted Intervention which some parents may know know as rti in our particular School my daughters have always had RTI which simply has served as a wonderful differentiation of instruction so for the kiddos that are Advanced they're going off with a teacher and dealing with Advanced topics for the kiddos that are struggling with a particular subject area they're able to focus on that subject area to be able to find their strengths and be able to find their footing in that area and then the third tier is intensive intervention so that's where you have a more parent involvement although parents are involved in Higley from start to finish if your child has been identified as needing any of these interventions from forms to meetings all of these things it's all readily available on the Arizona Department of Education because this is mandated by the federal government it's not something unique to husd when you Google mtss you'll find dozens of school districts that reference it on their own websites so it is not something unique to hear and I was really disappointed that a board member would go on a show like that and represent themselves as a member of this board and present misinformation so I hope that that will stop in the future thank you foreign thank you Mr Roy Morales hi good evening and thank you for having me here tonight um I just wanted to make a point of clarification in my last presentation I was here and we were discussing about the GSA club that spoke at Higley High School and at williamsfield high school and Hyatt called it I believe it was a gay sexual Alliance club and I was corrected after my speak my speech and uh was uh corrected to say there was a gender of sexual reality Alliance and that may be true but I just wanted to point out that you know we do the best we can with the information that we receive I was actually going off of a poster board that was made by one of the students and where they had a open house for all the eighth graders and it did say gender sexuality Alliance on this poster board so if anybody needed correction that to me would have been that student and not me so I just got out to you I also have a form a form from the NIH that has confirmed that it actually goes by both names gender sexual Alliance or the gay straight aligned so according to the NIH website it says both so you could probably use it interchangeably uh so I just feel that when a board member corrects somebody who has a request to speak and addresses an after they speak and they have to sit down they can't rebut they can't engage in that conversation I think that's an unfair practice so moving on um I was looking at the upcoming proposal for your renewal of your membership or the Arizona School Board Association it looks like that this contract is in for for the next four years and it looks like it apparently it looks about about fifty one hundred dollars per year for this uh membership and surprisingly this is a four-year membership so it looks like an All or Nothing proposition so my concern is is that you guys go into this contract the asba you're committed for four years you pay your fifty one hundred dollars per year and it ends any moment could the next School Board in two years maybe in different uh opinions with the asba want to back out of that contract they're still on the hook for 50 or whatever is remaining on that contract I see then here that um so that so in other words you still have to Shell out that money in order to leave the association there have been many uh districts that have left the uh asba because of their close ties to the National Association of school boards which wrote a letter to the doj claiming that parents who go to school board meetings are domestic terrorists and I understand the ASB backed away they didn't want to be part of that but that isn't to say something in the future may happen and this is an opportunity where the district can hold them feet to the fire and say you know what you guys are doing something we can't hold you accountable if we were stuck in a four-year contract because if we quit we're going to have to pay 50 of whatever's remaining on that contract so I would ask you guys to see if if their current contract allows you just to do the automatic annual renewal and just keep it as such that way you can keep them accountable for their actions going forward okay thank you so much Mr John Mason before I I get started uh talking I just wanted to uh thank Mr Tyler Moore for some really nice Communications that we had a long time ago and I just wanted to recognize you and thank you because I felt I put you under the gun one time and I apologize so um you know I wanted to talk about social and emotional learning social emotional learning is an intrinsic part of the district's strategic plan I request that the district have at least three open meetings to discuss social emotional learning at Higley this could provide the community opportunities to ask questions about SEL it would also provide an opportunity for the community to give feedback about the district's SEL goals during the last election the two the two School Board candidates who were explicitly against SEL received almost 50 percent of the vote that means that probably 50 percent of the constituents are against SEL this suggests to me that the district is not in touch with the values of at least 50 percent of the community I make no personal claims about having a high level of Social and emotional maturity however a district that teaches social and emotional skills must be willing to demonstrate those skills thus I ask that you do the socially and emotionally mature thing I request that you have open meetings to ensure that the 50 percent who implicitly voted against SEL to have their voices heard I will mention my primary concern with RCL SEL can be used as a tool to influence students political beliefs the district has already introduced politics into the learning environment as I explained two months ago before the school board the district illegally used public resources to influence the outcome of an election I'm also aware of instances where the students are belittled by teachers for their political beliefs in particular one student at Higley was publicly called a racist by a teacher for being a trump supporter I find that disturbing you know I I recently looked it up on I think it was the Pew Research Center racism is extraordinarily in my opinion racism is extraordinarily rare in the United States I Married an immigrant wife from South Africa she grew up in South Africa where apartheid was a problem she grew up under the most oppressive circumstances imaginable I've never had a problem with being married to a black lady I've never experienced racism I've never had an instance in which my racial children have been discriminated against so you know I was so so when people start saying that that Trump is a racist they're just very rare in the United States in my opinion so uh I really advise that you keep SEL and politics off from the school grounds and thank you very much for your time today [Music] yes thank you moving on to the consent agenda item 6.1 through 6.17 I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda items second all those in favor aye five to zero and with that I'd like to introduce introduce Mr latzenheiser president Schultz members of the board with your approval of the consent agenda you hired some new administrators for next year and three of them are in attendance today and so I'd like to introduce them to you and then turn it over to Mr Moore but um it's kind of weird I want to turn around on another back here so first of all I'd like to introduce Mr Chad Cantrell who will be the principal at Cooley Middle School next year Chad comes to us with experience as we sent to the community as a para educator a teacher an athletic director and instructional coach a testing coordinator and Elementary principal and a junior high Middle School principal most recently in Apache Junction but we're glad to have him joining us next year um where is Pam I'd like to introduce Pam Simmons as the new assistant principal of activities at Higley High School [Applause] Pam is currently the dean of students and has worked at Higley for the last two years and is now joining and moving up into the assistant principal role welcome Pam finally I'd like to introduce our new dean of students at sasman middle school and Nicole McCullough the call brings years of experience as Middle School and Middle School administration is moving to us from Maricopa so welcome aboard to our three new administrators for next year Mr Moore [Applause] we actually have one more administrator that is part of my team here I'd like to introduce uh Gustavo Padilla he's our new director of Maintenance and construction uh we'd like to welcome him from he comes from us he comes from Queen Creek uh it brings 10 years of experience in the facilities and maintenance department so we're happy to have him to be a part of our team so welcome thank you and welcome to all of our new staff we look forward to next year and while we're welcoming new staff I want to just take a minute to say good um wish all of our retirees that we just approved their retirement um with the consent agenda as well including Mrs Patty Gleason who has a special place in my heart and her work with everything that she's done with the preschool program and I just I don't um normally call out specific teachers that are leaving the district but I just wanted to give a personal goodbye to um a teacher that I worked with at Cooley Middle School who was my mentor and um made things a lot easier oh man I'm sorry I think it's a lot easier there and he's been in Higley for 14 years and I didn't know so I found out to say he actually attended these schools very cool so I just wanted to say Goodbye Mr McGee and to all the lives that you changed and it was um an honor to work with you very nice Mrs Anderson we will be moving on to information items 7.1 Higley High School project update phase two weatherization and exterior painting good evening president Schultz members of the board um tonight we're bringing to you uh phase two update for the Higley High School project the weatherization project was postponed and we're still working on pricing tonight that was previously why we haven't brought it earlier tonight we do have the pricing and we do have a few Renditions I'd like to invite up to the podium the DLR group there's a Carmen and Simon and then Chase Building we have a representation uh Mr Patrick Shepherd um but tonight um again uh in our presentation I presents an acronym slide for those who are watching online and want to uh review the presentation um moving into the Higgly High project Phase One update um progress is is moving forward um the team at Chase is is um I want to say add schedule or ahead of schedule right now um I've personally walked the building as long as several members of the cabinet and it is amazing you walk in one week in the next week There's drive all up and paint and so they are moving quickly still shooting for that July start data the start of school you can see a picture here you can see the rendition is almost looking like the building now we're getting closer um I think Patrick is there anything you want to add to the Phase One update this project going it's really been great I actually walked it before I came up here for the meeting and the site looks great it's clean it's safe and the Interiors are all starting to really pop with some of the finishes so overall it's going to be a great job as you can see see whenever we can match the rendering and make it look like the picture we know we're doing something right so it's a beautiful building and we're just we're happy to be here and proud to be a part of the project so jumping into phase two again this was uh phase two initiatives were presented to the governing board as uh recommendations from District to maintain the campus in terms of Safety and Security as well as general maintenance needs at the campus um was in well need of these projects are being funded by the capital capital dollars as you know we do not have a bond in place and so these projects while chase is on site we felt it was advantageous to utilize them that we had some cost Savings in terms of keeping on board and achieving some of the maintenance needs at the site that campus had just a recap gmp3 we brought that to the board earlier this month that included the restroom refreshes campus security and lighting and traffic flow modifications that GMP was 2.8 million dollars with 000 coming from the adjacent ways fund and most of that again being a part of the traffic flow modifications the restroom refresh I'm happy to report about three different restrooms are near complete I think we're just waiting on partitions and so those might open up while students are still in school and so um that is just a again a tribute to Chase and their team and working through uh with Mr fields and the Higley High campus and making sure what direction we can get into in keeping the schedule moving forward so um those restaurants will more than likely be opened again before the end of school moving down to tonight so tonight we're presenting gmp4 this GMP includes the exterior weatherization and painting and so weatherization again includes a number of different things so not only is it is it the paint on the exterior but it's also weatherizing the building against elements in terms of water wind anything like that to basically preventative maintenance and so it sends the useful life of the building and with that the school facilities oversight board the state they provide funding for that to maintain your schools when they get to a point of that need so Higley High did qualify in terms of some of the assessments that we had on the building for sfob funding about 98 of the campus that was eligible for SOB funding failed the assessment and so this the campus really was in need of this project so um tonight that proposal for gmp4 is later on the recommended on the action item but that includes a 1.8 million dollars with 1.1 million dollars being funded from the state so only about 600 000 being from from the capital budget so you're going through the math down there so again we started with a attended budget 3.5 million total project costs including everything is 4.7 but utilizing different funding resources in the state um that that basically attributes 1.6 million dollars and basically other funding that's helping support these projects and so the true Capital cost to the district and that Capital fund is only 3.1 million dollars this would be the extent of phase two in the projects at Higley High School I know it seems like it's dragged on but it's important to understand that pricing and long lead items have caused some delays in getting you guys actual numbers as well as working with the school facilities oversight board and making sure that they have what they need to approve this project and and basically that we have that funding available to use for us with that we do have a few rendering so I'd like to show you so I have a few before and afters and I would like to thank Simone from DLR to that provided these um I I was kind of picky and I said I I know I want our board to see like actual Renditions of what before and after would look like and so um again these are about 99 done we're still working with campus admin to make sure this is something that their campus basically looks feels and wants in terms of colors those are the little variables that we have available to choose from the rest of the package the weatherization is is really just making sure that we get items needed to maintain the building and keep it weatherproof and basically satisfy the school facilities board requirements so here's a little before and after of the gym and so some of the themes that from way back in the community meetings were basically school spirit campus colors and so Simone and DLR have Incorporated some of those into these here we're also looking at lighter colors to make sure this can be sustainable one thing to point out when we do get State funding um and correct me if I'm wrong Carmen but the state requires a 10-year warranty on paint and exterior weather station so we can ensure that the money that we're putting towards this is going to last us for the next 10 years so coming to the next rendition we have the 500 building here and so you can see um I know the new building isn't done yet but we're incorporating a lot of the colors and the themes from that new building to maintain campus continuity and make sure you know that all these spaces talk and feel and speak to each other so you can see some of the dark Grays some of the the blues and then some of the light colors into there we have the administration building along with this a lot of the metal excuse what is it called the siding the yeah okay siding you can see it's been it's been scraped um and just damaged from previous trees and Etc and so a lot of that is being touched up with paint um and you can see the rendition here kind of really just freshening up and giving the campus a good look and feel I think I have a couple more here and so uh this is um I think building 400 off a record and so again adding some of the the Higley school spirit with some of their branding the night logo The Shield um and incorporating some of the colors there in addition um this project we're also tackling the the httpa um we figure at the same time this building is not been painted since the existing school as well and so it still has much of the need as the existing campus um so one thing to note with this this is part of the reason the capital expense is so high the sfob will only fund education space and so what that includes are basically the only thing that we are funding is the the 900 building in the hcpa in the 900 building being the field house at Higley High and so those are considered excluded space in in the state's eye and so some of that 600 000 that is District costs are are being funded to to paint and weatherize those two buildings and so um one theme that we wanted to do with the httpa was create a little different space as it is its own space and do a little more of a modern feel and so there's a the dark black with the lower pillars there and then the metal being freshened up as well I believe that is my last slide um just a little timeline again um tonight we're asking for approval of gmp4 which includes weatherization and exterior painting um summer again major construction across the Higley High campus um the traffic flow will begin as soon as we get the final okay from the town of Gilbert they had a few comments regarding the initial permit and so we're working through those right now which is why you haven't seen major construction on that also we wanted to kind of say off of the current traffic flow to try to avoid any delays that they're to the already existing campus so we're again holding all those till summer and then again July 24th first day of school we hope to have a majority of these projects either started and or wrapped up we do know and I will state right now some of these will feed over into the school year we're going to try to eliminate most of the items that have an effect on the students so we're talking the bathrooms obviously the new building those are our first priority and we're going to work through the exterior painting that is something we can do after hours on the weekend that doesn't affect the education environment and so some of those may be saved or go tail into the new year and through fall break so um is there anything I kind of missed okay any questions I just thank you very much this looks great and when the kids and teachers have a nice place to go it feels better I I think and with the school spirit I just have a quick question on you mentioned um the town's comments on the traffic flow are those all addressable comments do you anticipate us still having a fix by the school year or yeah they're they're minor comments and correct me from Ron Patrick but the the comments uh are more or less just making sure that we are taking into consideration all the requirements in terms of ADA and all the sidewalks and um basically anything we're touching that affects the town those are the main areas of emphasis and so um they're minor comments um and so we anticipate having the complete permits back by the end of May so I can hand it over to chase to begin basically construction demolition on that traffic flow perfect I know that's many concern for many parents and students so that'll be great presidential my question is does Higley not do like drama out of the hcpa building or does that not count for the state staff and the Jazz you know you know I'm talking they do Higley head does not have a you know an auditorium as you know they where they use httpa for a lot of their extracurriculars but uh it is what I just said extracurriculars and um unfortunately yeah they're not it's not considered an education space um believe me we stretched as much as we could with the state but ultimately they are the ones who determined that and you know that that is what we're currently approved for those are the two excluded spaces that we will have to fund yeah this is Wade would just like to add a lecture hall in there Jesus any other questions thank you very much thank you moving on to 7.2 Human Resources quarterly ESI report good evening president Schultz members of the board before you have the third quarter report and before I get started on this I just want to say the preliminary board agenda did have inaccurate numbers there was no other inaccurate numbers except what was sent to the board members on Friday and through some mathematical error we came up with the correct numbers and that's what you have before you this evening so the third quarter report states that we did spend an additional 519 and 82 cents and we are at the place where we will be asking in the um action items as you can tell for an increase to this purchase order so you might be saying why why more why more right so according to what we have our records and working very closely with ESI we have an increase obviously in the dollar amount that we've been spending on our subs we have some long-term Subs obviously certified Subs we pay our classified subs from this purchase order as well we also have people that are rehire retired to rehire that we pay as well on ESI that is the mechanism that we use the positive things that are coming out of this is the fact that we have very high fill rates we are at about 90 to 95 percent fill rates for our subs so our students are benefiting from the subs from ESI and the cost that the district is paying we also have some folks who are on leaves such as like a maternity leave FMLA leave so we cover those with long-term Subs as well driving up the cost that we're seeing after this third quarter so in our ask for additional dollars for the rest the remainder of the year that amount will be six hundred and fifty thousand dollars Sanders presidentials I had asked the question I believe I was regarding the increase but um I just want to follow up with my question um to clarify what I was searching for regarding employees taking employees that were leaving taking leave and I guess I didn't state it correctly but the reason I asked is for our policy for um professional support staff generally gcca payment for unused General leave full-time Personnel who have been continuously employed by the district for not less than eight years may receive payment for unused accumulated General leave so I didn't know if maybe that's part of the increase is possibly their well they have moratory ears and they've accumulated some hours there a lot of teachers will try to burn it and I brought it up before of addressing this policy and it's not on we're not talking policy right now but I would love to re-look at this because I looked at other school districts and their policy regarding time frames yes and Tyler said it's coming okay sorry now I have been working with meet and confer and he can speak to the policy at this moment yeah president Schultz Miss Anderson um I just remember meeting the first half are here today we've been working on this uh policy and so we had a little bit of a delay with Miss Martin's leaving um she obviously was a main part of being conferred so this policy we just had our last meeting confer meeting we did we do have a red line version ready to bring we felt that it was too soon our meeting was just last week so it was too soon to get on this agenda I do anticipate having that for a first read on the June 7th but we did that was one thing that came to um to conversation like we had eight years is a long time and are we really incentivizing people to stay and so um you'll see in the recommendation that we're going to be reducing that and then um you know kind of incentivizing that payout scale a little more and in the hopes that people hold that because there is a little more incentive to have that leave accumulated uh when you do leave whether the reason whatever reason that may be so hold tight that is coming uh and that will be soon presented to you so sorry just so I understand um so we want to consider lowering the eight years yeah I think we can have that conversation on June 7th I just want to answer Miss Anderson's question uh but we will bring that recommendation for a first read on on June 7th so okay on that policy thank you any other questions president Schultz Mrs Reese just as I I'm looking at the report [Music] um any idea why so much in the third quarter well one of the reasons is that legislation we have legislation like ACA Affordable Care Act and we also have proper 206 which allows an employee to have sick time to utilize their sick time as needed so the general leave that we're talking about when employees need to be out they're out I think we're seeing a shift as well when people are not feeling well they're staying home and they're taking care of themselves and that helps to bring down the sickness spread right so I think that's what we're seeing at this point I really can't attribute to anything else at this moment okay thank you presidential and board member Reese something else that might be or at least looking in because I know that we still do blackout dates considering how much testing is fourth quarter if I you know as a former teacher know that I need mental health days of you know just taking time off or planning for specific things doctor's appointments Etc if I have blackout dates fourth quarter coming up and I need to get certain stuff I will try to fit it in where I don't get penalized so that could also be part of it clarify that's why their third quarter was so okay perfect thank you that's what I thought I just because fourth quarter has testing correct right um and other like end of the year stuff that they flattered or like you just so third quarter has less of that president Schultz and just so I understand so it's hard to compare you know month over month when we look at the termination and resignation lists unless I combine them and Excel and then sort it by date but um so since I think you asked about um as far as getting a report back to January 1st now some of these have been on the list since January 1st as that it just keeps being added to is that when the list is by the month of resignations or terminations that we have or retirement so each time it comes to the board those are current because they're current okay think in our um weekly report it was the same amount as last year correct at this time it actually was we looked at the month of May and June and we were at 82 this year and 100 last year okay so less sorry so it was less than last year for those for the May and June uh not excuse me April and May excuse me perfect thank you any other questions thank you Mr Johnson moving on to 7.3 special education Day School report fiscal year 23 third quarter um Mrs Miller good evening president Schultz members of the board this is the third quarter update of our private day schools that I bring forward every quarter um with you you can expect the final update coming at the end of the fourth quarter as well as the request for the approval for the um next school year so this is where we currently stand the amount brought forward originally is just an estimate as this is kind of a moving Target we don't know what to expect and as you can see we anticipate staying within the requested amount this year questions thank you Mrs Miller thank you 7.4 textbook adoption presentation foreign good evening president Schultz members of the board here to talk to you a little bit about conceptual physics and just provide an update of where we are in the process of adopting a textbook for this course conceptual physics is a middle school course it's a science course taught at both of our middle schools focusing on the applied ideas of physics I think like Newton's Laws motion waves Force using all those ideas in a real world application and so that's where kids get to really encounter these ideas so that's the course that we're talking about for this so on January 9th of this year 2023 this is when we began the process that's where rfps were issued and those phase one evaluations of the RFP submissions came in on the 16th of February at that point we determine which textbooks were suitable to go to that next level that phase two this is where the teachers who actually teach the courses were given a period of time to evaluate the materials and use rubrics to be able to provide their own input and feedback on the characteristics and qualities of the textbooks those textbooks then went on display on the 1st of March and they continue on display for the public they're right outside this door so anyone who wants to make a an examination and a comment there's a QR code that allows anyone to provide specific feedback about the books and we'll leave those on public display all the way through the 7th of June of this year so they're available during normal business hours for anyone to come in and take a look at those back on March 30th we had our publisher presentations where the vendors representing the two textbooks that we have available came and they spoke directly to the teachers that were a part of that group and anyone from the public that was welcome to attend and at uh this point tonight I'm giving you the update here we are on May the 10th but I'm excited to announce that next week on Tuesday right here in the governing boardroom at 4 30 we're going to hold a community meeting so that any members of our community can come in and uh get a closer look at the materials and give any feedback that they have about conceptual physics specifically about the materials that we have I think I'm going to be able to have at least one of the teachers who teaches a course on hand being able to uh to be there and answer any questions and speak specifically about the uh their needs and the things that they look for and what makes a good set of materials specific to this this particular course which is usually taken it's kind of an accelerated course so for middle schoolers to dive into physics at that age and Stage and then at that point we hope to bring back final recommendations taking in all the all the information input from the teachers from community members from the public display and bring all those together with a recommendation for you thank you Dr treat um if they missed this meeting or don't hear about when the community meeting is that's it's on our website the information and then also goes out in an email to tell people parents community members president excuse me presidential the communication went to the entire Community already in the middleware of this that went out I think the last Thursday yes I believe it was Thursday I'm so sorry I was I missed the email so I'm sorry again no it's okay I have the information last Thursday okay I I was yes I understand why I missed it no okay thank you any questions yes was there communication sent out that it was on public display because I don't remember receiving that as a Middle School Parent do you know when that went out uh board member Van Hook those were on uh the website as far as the notifications we've had our process and our timeline as well as the rubrics available all the way throughout this process so the notification was within that timeline on that section on our adoptions for this year so it was just posted on the website and not necessarily in the email went out letting parents know that it is on display from March 30th that was the notification the no the one the display from March 1st to June 7th I'm sorry yes that was the notification on the website at that point that the public was welcome to and and still are they're still on display today so if the public doesn't know that it's happening and they don't go to the website they would never know that it's on display correct that's where the notification is yeah and and and this is why I believe it's important to send out an email like we did with the community meeting because if parents don't know that something's on display they have no reason to go to the website they'd never know to go to the website and and look at something and you know I think in most cases unless a parent needs something they don't visit the website um so this is the first time I'm hearing that there was a public display that's been happening since March 1st so if we could possibly send an email out letting parents know that this is open until June 7th I think that that'd be really good because I'm sure most parents aren't aware thank you Dr retreat so parents have until June 7th and then the community meeting is May 16th just to confirm thank you very much I I had a question I'm sorry I'm sorry um will the community meeting be recorded before people who cannot attend yeah awesome yeah wonderful vice president Anderson we can work to make that happen for sure um just like we were toward these so okay thank you and there's two conceptual physics teachers one at each school or if we hired more since one of these schools one at each School two were there any other science teachers that from other subject areas that yes we had one other teacher who is qualified to teach that course but is not currently teaching the course that individuals expressed an interest in the future and wanted to be a part of the process okay and did to be a part of the committee or did anyone anyone from the high school no for the transition yeah no no one no one else participated okay all right thank you last thing and anybody can answer this is when do we go to summer hours just so the community knows the hours that they can come to the district or when to look for that I don't know the date connect excuse me president Schultz we can add that to the email notification clarifying that it's still here and here are our summer hours so we'll take care of that perfect thank you very much thank you I think that's all now thank you oh no sorry sorry I apologize um what where remind me I apologize I don't recall from our last meeting when our community newsletters going out and is that something that we can put in it if it will catch um the information send and can we do it moving forward vice president Anderson we sent it through a separate email identifying um when this event would take place on the 16th here at the district office so please clarify for me what you're asking I was just asking in addition to or to emailing on information can our the community newsletter or forget what we called it the um the new thing we're sending out announcements on the main website okay um as well so we can ask schools to put out on their weekly newsletters okay president Teresa's yeah when we talked about sending out the Higley um that magazine thank you that she talked about in her PR initiative the for or marketing initiative that we would be sending we're going to re do those and start sending those out to the community and I think Mrs Anderson's asking when is that going to go out and because this goes through June 7th is that something that will make that thank you for clarifying the question so probably the the when we're talking about doing again those newsletters they're going to be more like informational that it isn't date time sensitive because they might be quarterly and we'd hate for it to it won't probably go before we send before the June 7th because that was part of the goals for next year to relaunch those as part of our kickoff so this would be utilizing the emails currently we use the emails and announcement in our website all the same so when the emails go they're also on the website so we double do them so for instance if a school newsletter goes home it's also sent through an email and on the website that's what we're currently doing now for for timely things that could expire by the time it would go to print if you will and that way it's more more timely and and it allows us and allows families to customize how they want to receive that communication presidentials this um kind of another example of how are we going to communicate with our community that don't have kids in our schools because this does this could be information that other people who who have kids attending Charter Schools don't have you know things like that this could be of some interest to them see what our curriculum is perhaps it could help you know decide as my kids get into high school this is a good curriculum this is their path that we they would be interested in um and just to be interested in what we're teaching so um again we kind of talked about that before at our at our Retreat on how to look at how we can communicate Community as a whole um because we still have lots of families that don't necessarily have kids in our schools that could be interested in like Mrs Van Hook said they're if they don't know something's going on unless they make it a habit to check our website on a regular basis they wouldn't necessarily know this is happening so just another thing to keep in mind on how to communicate bigger things like this even if it's just a small little postcard hey textbook and adoption look at our website something to to steer them to the website not doesn't have to be long what's the presidential was the the previous textbook adoption for science was that emailed out or was it done the same way uh president Schultz vice president Anderson if you recall we actually had a very similar conversation and what happened is it went into the newsletters of all the schools and this was a much larger adoption but very similar in its stature that again this was a one uh course last time it was the entire science but yes it went it went in all of the newsletters for all of the schools during that window time okay and if you remember nobody came to check out the curriculum except for Mrs Wilson um was the only one that came and signed in and out um and yes we peaked when we were we went to the rooms and we looked at it yes um but that signed in and signed out so if this is important to you as a community then take this time between now and June 7th and attend the community meeting and also if you have kids that are interested in physics and the district then this is a great time to see what the program is and the classes that we're offering here at Higley thank you Dr treat president Schultz can we acknowledge our district level instructional science coach Kimberly Morton can you stand up and wave thank you she has worked very hard to take care of all of our teachers and our students and today we had some exciting news we went to Higley Traditional Academy the third grade teachers showed us their ecosystems in their classrooms and were raving about how much they loved the curriculum so it was a positive thing to hear that they're enjoying it and that lady back there has worked really hard along with Dr tree thank you Dr treat can you repeat what system that was again ecosystems yes oh sorry this is accent I'm sorry presidential board member Van Hook we got to walk into the jungle the desert the Arctic the ocean and they had transformed their rooms with poster boards of learning all over and the students could not have been more proud and they were sharing they wanted to share their work so we happened to be there to hear from students reported over graduate and they had to pull this in to show us we want to show you our science so it was pretty it was pretty wonderful that's awesome I'm guessing there'll be pictures in our weekly report yes okay perfect I can't wait to see thank you very much all right Mr Walker moving on to 7.5 student code of conduct information good evening president Schultz members of the board tonight come forward to present to you an update on the code of conduct heading into the 2324 school year so it's a couple pieces of information especially for newer board members just what is the code of conduct it is our our document our public document that supports governing board policy jic which is student conduct it summarizes the district's behavioral expectations based on both School law and governing board policy and it serves as a point of reference for disciplinary procedures for Teacher students Administration in the community so last year we brought the code of conduct to the board as an information item uh June of 2022 that was the first time that the conduct document had been brought since 2017.

second one questions comments concerns president Schultz um Dr Foley if we are utilizing um this for laws and policies um because one of the responses back that we got was um we we use them for you know for laws and and they keep us up to date on on policies um would that make them like a third organization that we utilized for for that purpose other than asbo president Schultz board member Van Hook a different context one of those things is and you'll notice that this is a collection of of typically smaller districts not always uh not always because there are some larger districts on there but these are districts that don't have internal um some many districts have their own lobbyists they have their own um uh legal services in addition to the trust that they use what this particular Organization for instance does is affiliation with them keeps you current on things that are happening on the senate floor um when the way we don't end up hearing about it after the fact let me give you an example um during covid uh prior to the district being a part of of guppy Mech we were learning about things that were happening from the governor's office as they were being announced to the public when a a new executive order came to be and so what a lot of the new superintendents at the time I was stepping into this role across the state said you need to belong your District needs to belong IR consultant at the time um said there's a resource here that most districts utilize that really helps them and what's beautiful is this organization has people who work directly every week every other week they meet with Arizona Department of Education they are who the governor's office goes to first they have someone sitting in with bills coming out this is war this isn't this is in the house this is in the Senate this failed so that we as Educators can be monitoring things as they are happening and respond to it appropriately prior to the advisories coming out to us this is on the boots real these are people who are Educators who are monitoring things that are going to impact educational leaders so that we can forecast it and respond ahead of time the reason I found out about this is I saw that some districts were releasing Communications about how they were going to respond to an executive order literally at the same time it hit the public we prior to having this we're just learning about it at the same time so being we are a small District our bench is not deep I don't have multiple assistant superintendents or a set of In-House we used to have an in-house attorney don't have that anymore we don't have lobbyists being a part of an organization where someone is constantly providing that information for for the district is helpful we would hope that that the that the governing board would want to support the district leadership in the Business Services Department in the ed services department and all the assistant superintendents with information that's coming right out of the I've been able to participate on advisory committees that were being formed before they were even out there because yappy Mac knew it was aware and I was able to apply right away so if um we would hope that we would want to continue those services for professional development there's monthly meetings there's the ability to get newsletters um I will share with you that that there are very few resources that exist like this for for educators so this would be something that we would hope that the governing board would support for us to have as professionals trying to forecast and respond to situations in Arizona and education um from the from the Senate to the committee floors there's someone who provides an update we know about it before we read about it in the newspaper okay and um as far as like for instance like I get as soon as an executive order goes out or any bills are signed or vetoed I get a notification we end up getting it used beforehand because for instance the governor's group or Tom horns group would go to the players of guppy Mac and say Here's what I'm getting ready to out there to your leaders can you make them aware so this is one of the this is one of the educational groups that ends up helping keep Educators aware before hearing about it when it's finally decided and and we know what we we understand what senators are talking about and what's being proposed and what when it dies it allows us to just kind of track what might be coming to us in the next policy advisories so that we can forecast appropriately yeah it also allows us to give input and allows us to be on communities because it's very hard for us to be we can't be on the senate floor I can't be at every uh and wouldn't be invited to every meeting with um you know what's with with Tom Horn but but this group does and they can provide updates about the conversations that are happening so for us it's an invaluable resource um that if we didn't have we would be relying on asking our peer districts to provide us what was sent to them uh so that we could have access to it which is what we were doing before um and so quite honestly our consultant said with with the limited Staffing you have with people who do this as a full-time job for districts you need a resource like that thank you all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries five to zero moving on to 8.8 authorization of expenditure Renaissance assessment package I'm a commotion to authorize to the authorization of expenditure Renaissance assessment package Christina okay questions comments concerns um president Schultz yes um so as I stated above an 8.6 here it discusses Renaissance DNA and then Renaissance fast Bridge DNA is pretty much a data collection um contains student profiles summarizes pertinent demographics assessments grades um it contains a light live proctoring tool and it uses data across multiple platforms it tracks student Behavior participation risk level um and if if you go to the website it provides a sample of the type of labeling on students so it could contain notes that the student is very pleasant um I can say that the student has no issues or mild issues [Music] and so teachers could put you know scores on certain areas of the student um the concern is this could be you know possible data mining um that many parents have have issues with as far as fast Bridge this says accelerate learning with K-12 screening progress monitoring assessments for academics social emotional Behavior with intervention recommendations used by schools as a curriculum Source it falls um so it falls under Renaissance it pushes social emotional learning whole child lgbtq BLM Equity social justice um reading math and social emotional Behavior it's data driven utilizing mtss um and it monitors growth and promotes Equity it sorts the report by gender ethnicity Etc um so this again is uh concerning to parents and districts like Mesa utilize it and they do have an opt-out form on their website for parents to be able to opt their children out of it so if we are going to continue to use it um I would hope that there's an opt-out form for parents to do just that I think that this is Richard sorry I said previously that there is an opt-out for opt out process for everything if you don't want your kid to read a book about dogs you can opt out to read your doc not read about dogs there's everything in opt out I get a form for everything I get a form for reading a book that might have a word I don't care about but is in there that someone else might care about or something so president Schultz board member Van Hook I have asked Marcus Berkshire to come and explain the components that we are requesting to use and why because there are multiple components in there in other districts have used things that we are not going to use so I'm going to let him take over here markets president Schultz member van hope the products that we're bringing to the board tonight DNA is an assessment platform what the product that you were describing is part of the illuminate Suite of products that was purchased by Renaissance and that product is a product called edu climber DNA fast Bridge those products will flow into edu climber and it is used for mtss purposes that kind of thing in other districts we are not purchasing edu climber uh the only thing that we're looking at is DNA which if you're familiar with Galileo DNA is a is a beefed up much better product than Galileo we've used Galileo in the district for approximately 15 years and it hasn't changed since the first day that it was introduced in the district DNA provides multiple opportunities for teachers to provide different ways for kids to be assessed both formatively as well as summatively it's a standards based product so as a teacher I can go in to the the item bank and say I want items on this particular standard I want to filter those by dok level which is the complexity of the question they mirror what our kids will be taking for the state assessments very well it also has predictive capabilities just like with what we had with Galileo to tell us how our kids are going to perform on the state tests so that's the DNA product it's reporting capability does allow us to really dive down and look at individual student performance subgroup performance which is very important for us because that's part of our letter grades from the state is looking at how our subgroups perform and how they improve so the ability to to pull those demographics and look at individual kids and individual subgroups and how they perform on not only our district benchmarks but individual teacher assessments helps guide them in their instruction moving forward and helping kids and and meet them where they need uh the other product bass Bridge does have a tool called Sabers in it we are not using savers so the only two products that we'll be using in bass bridge will be the universal screeners in both reading and math and those are available for K-12 and what those really do is they provide us with basically a pre-assessment of where our kids are and what skill deficits they may have in math or reading which allow us to intervene with those students early on before they are failing that's the idea with the uh an instrument like bass bridge is it allows us to really hone in on where a child may have a specific skill deficit for example if they take and the fast track reading they may come back and it might say they have it they're struggling with phonemic awareness and then it's going to provide us with information on what we can do as a teacher to address that particular skill deficit again the goal being that if we can address it now and early on before they're failing then they're going to have better chance for Success moving on um so again the Sabers piece that is part of the product however we have the ability to disable it and it is disabled teachers will not see it they cannot assign it to kids any other questions no thank you thank you questions all those in favor of 8.8 authorization of expenditure Renaissance assessment package hi I was opposed nay motion carries four to one items for future agenda this agenda item is for the governing board to have running record for potential items to be placed on a future agenda item there will be no discussion on the substance merits or issues relating to the approach proposed agenda item any proposed agenda items this is Anderson thank you found a communication of the of the uh science book adoption just again just keep working or we can get an update and follow our strategic plan of how that's working with communication for parents and um I guess I don't know that's a future agenda item or something that we can put in an update of any plans we have to stick to our strategic plan to communicate for communication thank you um can we add it as like an information item as far as like an update so yes this would be the time for just future agenda items so if we wanted to add as an information item then we can ask cabinet to add as an information item on a future agenda or communication um and I'd like to be able to add um one of the speakers tonight mentioned BrainPOP I'd like to be able to add that as a discussion item foreign okay I remember that all right I'd like to move though we adjourn the meeting all those in favor aye motion passes five to zero just want to say congratulations to the class of 2023 and we hope you all have a great summer thank you

and again that's okay but that back to the point of that does mean we have a couple years where it's going to be uh probably a little bit tighter so um I would hesitantly say let's give it a shot my other concern though to be honest I watched it uh quite frankly when I was in AJ if you start the snowball rolling downhill and it's not a positive snowball it starts to gain Steam and you fail at one time and then you fail it a second time and then you fail at a third time that's happened in Florence um several years now and that's why they haven't gone out the last couple years so and I don't want to sound wishy-washy and that's why I want to get your perspective too because it's not going to be an easy it's going to be a tough Hill to climb if we do it in 23.

that'll be hard I know that in a bond is easier to raise money just because those Builders have a vested interest right and an mno it's not as easy right so I yeah no but I can get you that number I'll make some calls and I'll share that information do you want do you wanna do you want this on the board agenda for June with those numbers and yeah I mean I think we should Vote or what or decide make a decision then well I I wouldn't want to make a decision without real numbers in front of me but I think it would be important to look at it and I would say that even if we don't pass it for this one we could we would know you know hey this is what it's going to be and if we wanted to really prepare for 2024 I think that'd be helpful okay so I think yeah you know I I would just like to see that okay Jason I'm just thinking of the amount of time to educate the voters let me mention that is a 20 2023 enough time for us to educate the people that we relying on to pass it we had two months we have two months it doesn't seem like enough time to I mean if they don't if they're not educated then right how can we be hopeful that it would pass versus right we'd have a better chance of passing if we beat the pavement and had a chance to talk to people and and the actual people that lived in the district were excited about the bond or the which whichever direction we're going and then I mean I think if there was I think at the next board meeting if we had numbers and and like a plan of like how it could work within two months I mean I I would it does seem quick um but in all reality it only takes one person I mean you just need to talk about it once right like to somebody and they know I I just I'd like to see the plan of action and if it's plausible okay what do you think yeah I would like to you know certainly see it I think as far as letting people know it is a short timeline but I would say I think there's enough time but is that where social media can be maybe a asset to us and yeah it'd be social media between June just getting the posters the Billboards out like that takes a long time too like to get them printed and get them put up and you have to pay somebody to put them up you have to you you have to meet somebody in a parking lot to pick them up and so anyway um yeah I would like I I'm I'm not opposed to it I would like to see that yeah your timeline what we think how we how how how you can make it work within those those parameters I'm not opposed to it but I don't want to do it halfway right either and then us fail right because you're right then if it fails once the next time is more than likely going to fail to right so well let me let me do some work on it and come back um depending on what we find out there may be some things that I come back and tell you that that here's you know here's the information but I'm going to make the recommendation that we not go out for it or not so not even put it on the agenda but let me do let me find a few numbers I just want to get a feel for the board because I'm not going to do all this if you guys are saying like 23s way way too short let's do 24 and then then it's a different plan if 24 is out there then it's a different planet if it's 23 and so so but let me work together with the plan I'll talk to some of the people I know that have worked on these numbers and a few things like that and then I'll bring something back in June we'll see exactly what it is based on what I find out I'm not I'm not a hard no so right okay yeah no that's and that's why this discussion is to see and it's really just coming up as a result of the budget and some of the concerns and issues out of the budget so so it's not a problem okay okay all right so we'll take our recess about a 10 minute break yeah okay thank you a regular session at six o'clock um so I need approval we're going to have to do these oh well fine we'll do the pledge now are you guys ready okay so we're gonna need to do these um separately so I need approval for the meeting minutes for our special board meeting March 29 2023.

so we conducted an external comparison an internal review and had a legal examination of the existing documents our findings was that the document was relevant and appropriate but there were changes that needed to comply with legislative changes and then we would shift our Focus to a handbook that contains the code of conduct moving forward because there's lots of information that was in the code of conduct but the connotation denotation of the code of conduct is it's the consequences we want to front load the expectations first and then have the consequences follow so we're in the process and I'll talk about that in just a second if I were kind of reframing the approach to that so the work this year code of conduct task team was formed a representation from both sides of the feeder system comprising of secondary Deans aspiring administrators Counseling Services special education student information and legal the cabinet and Ed Services teams met and discussed the document we brought back items for a discussion to the uh to the to the code of conduct task team who then brought information back to their admin teams the team met again we reviewed changes and then we submitted to legal for a final review of the document Tas team consisted of following people representing from all sides of the district as well as different departments that have involvement along with representation from Udall Shumway for our review the findings for this year you know as we did a pretty extensive review last year there wasn't really a lot of information that was tended to change but it does support our intentions and the number one intention of the document is that it serves as a purpose to keep a safe and orderly learning environment for all of our students support our teachers and our administrators and our families it follows some sort of sequential Progressive discipline so it creates a learning opportunity for students so our main focuses of this year was to maintain a K-12 articulation so the progressive discipline is appropriate for students who are K-12 students and so they understand and learn the expectations early and then they can adhere to them for their time throughout the time in the district we also focused on Transportation bullying and harassment hazing and then due process for especially for long-term suspension and expulsion so the steps taken was to review the sequence of progressive discipline for all of our grade levels to better align them based on the input from the teams we worked with the transportation task team to to for one to be able to support transportation to maintain a safe and orderly uh route on the bus while supporting drivers while also supporting students creating a learning opportunity but also focusing on the safety on the bus and then legally review things that are connected to legislation such as hazing and bullying procedures and then we also sent several members of this of the staff to the trust training on on due process our next steps is the format the code of conduct so it becomes that chapter within the handbook and that handbook will present it as an information item in June and then ultimately translate the document into Spanish publish it on the district and cite web pages implement the acknowledgments and student view and parent view and then continue on with best use and consistency training ongoing throughout next school year and then repeat this process on an annual basis and bring back to the governing board any any changes or any trends that emerge from the review of the document any questions about that one president Schultz um what is changing in the bullying policy the policy is not being brought forward to change it's the procedure and making sure that the sites are following a procedure that's uniform across the district got it I I have heard from several parents that of their kids being bullied and nothing's being done about it and that's that's very concerning to me kids should feel safe when they're at school and when a child is being bullied it I'm sure makes them not want to be there and I I never want any child to feel that way um there is one incident that I noticed on social media today that I will share with the um with you later this evening but um similar situation a child is being bullied parent has gone you know to Administration and doesn't feel like it's being resolved so I want to ensure that um whatever policy that we have in place that the staff is trained on how to handle situations and that they do take it seriously when a parent brings forward any concerns president Schultz board member me too thank you thanks thank you I think that any other questions good perfect moving on to 7.6 first read of policy jica student dress which is also Mr Walker president Schultz members of the board tonight we bring forth a first read on governing board policy for student dress preferencing this policy read this is a very polarizing and controversial subject so we're bringing forward a policy review because the last time this policy was was approved was in 2001 and so this was one of the results of last year's code of conduct discussion in June and that there was some Antiquated language and there's maybe some discriminatory practices that were outlined in the way that the policy was read so we consulted with the policy team as well as sought legal inputs and this was the uh the result that we're bringing for first read was legal recommendation for an update to the student address policy presidentials as I put forth in my my email the area that I have the most concern about would be the area that talks about exposes the wearer's mid-drift undergarments or undergarment areas I often find that disproportionately impacts individuals who wear bras or bra straps those types of things and I know that we had some of the language in the the part that's like crossed out specifically like if your genitalia is exposed your chest those types of things I think I guess my only concern is we move forward with whatever statements that we make specifically is I I feel like the areas of concern that I have are people who are disproportionately impacted by that beyond that there are certain aspects as far as like how it's in forest and I recognize like for the most part because I mean I taught here over a decade ago and the way things started and how they enforce versus today even if this hasn't been updated since 2001 obviously our our enforcement has kind of changed with how style has changed how kids have changed Etc I just would like to make sure that we look at language that includes aspects of that um like for example also like the where's mid drift my I mean we have stomachs like at the end of the day I think some of the things that we do and how we we write or how we enforce some of these things I I just don't see how a that impacts the learning environment of anyone and be there are certain aspects that like I mean as a female especially and it's hot in this state there are there are times you're going to see my bra strap it exists um so I just that's my only area of concern as far as like the things that we continue with that and when we move forward um is that language specific presidential's board member Wade this is one of the reasons why we put this on here for discussion tonight because the policy is your policy unlike other ones where there are pretty legal pieces that are statutory this one it has a opportunity for there to be input on my thought would be is that if we're going to have a policy we're going to have to be sure that we enforce it and so what do you want us to be focusing our time on and hence we're having this conversation with here's an example of some updated language for a dress code policy like to hear some thoughts for you so that we can take that back to our policy task team and begin to look at the feedback you provide us to bring you a draft so this is like as you know not on the agenda tonight for decision this is for discussion being that this is one of your policies and this is something we want to it was discussed about bringing and wanting to be addressed and so let's have a conversation about the thoughts and concerns you have when you look at this so that we can begin to look at that and bring it back to you so piggybacking on what Mrs Wade said is I also have an issue with the exposes the wearer's mid-drift and undergarments specifically that it makes a female feel bad about their body and that were saying that they need to cover up because a way it might make someone else feel and that is wrong in 2023 we shouldn't be doing that there shouldn't be a time when teachers need to make sure a top meets the genes or looking at an inch to make sure that you're not showing a teeny bit of your stomach or part of your stomach right now the style is crop tops and it is very difficult to find a shirt for my 13 year old daughter that goes past her jeans or her pants I'm not saying we all need to be naked or that we all should come to school exposing our bodies but it is more of a waste of time to me for a teacher to point out a woman specifically females um showing an inch of their stomach than it is for them actually wearing what they're wearing in addition we do have bra straps we do have stomachs so I I have a problem with that part of the dress code presidentials um for me I think that as I mean coming kids coming to school it's it's an experience of you got to wake up you got to be there on time you got to do your work you gotta you know I think part of that is is learning to be I mean I know that they're children but learning to be professional um that you have to you know know your environment and I mean having experience in the charter schools and and their you know rules on on clothing um you know I found out some of it to be like way Extreme as far as like you know haircuts and and things like that but um I mean for girls I being a female um I think it's also knowing um how to um not part yourself um out there to be able to have um I don't I can't think of the word right now but just not self-esteem but um knowing that you don't have to show your body parts to be accepted or to to prove that you're female um I mean I I've seen some students with their butt cheeks hanging out and you know I don't think it's I want these girls to know that you don't have to do that to you know to to think that you're important or that you know you stand out for whatever reason [Music] um they should know that they're beautiful whether they're you know covered or whether they're wearing you know a shirt that shows their stomach so you know I I feel differently about being able to cover up a little bit and and learning to be a more professional I agree with that I don't think showing a part of your body is not professional or having a little bit of your party body is not professional if you have your shoulders exposed is that not professional if I'm wearing a dress like this I don't understand the difference especially seeing the style of clothing that is out there right now for just people to pick from I would talk presidential professional attire is how how do we expect our teachers to dress um so no teachers aren't walking around with midriff showing and they're definitely not walking around with their their back end hanging out of their shorts but I will agree that it is terribly difficult to find clothes that cover my body which I've been left to dressing back in my days as I was as a tomboy everything I wear is sport shorts and a t-shirt because that's something that I can really find that fits well this is going to be a difficult conversation because there's going to be disagreeances on how we raise our children and how we find what is appropriate for our children and then we're trying to make decisions for other people's children's children what I want to point out is the statements that I've heard from teachers where I teach about how the adults feel uncomfortable with the clothes and the body parts that they are seeing on these children so we need to make sure that we take in that into account when we make decisions whenever males and females are seeing girls with very short shirts and very short shorts and their bus busting out um I'll just I'll just stop there but that's the point we need to make sure we understand teacher professional attire so when we talk about what's professional attire let's go look at businesses and let's see um out outside the schools what's going on in businesses and what is their attire if we're going to address professional attire and also how do the teachers feel what are they what are their thoughts about some of the dress that they're seeing around the school especially when we're we have had instances with behavior between teachers a teacher and a student in issue before presidential I'm kind of back and forth on this I I hear everything that you and Mrs wader talking about the hard part is is that we say exposes the wearer's mid-drift and like you had referenced you know some things are crop tops at what point does it stop at what point is it too much because we don't specify we just say midriff what what is what's what's midriff defined as to then if someone's wearing a sports bra that that could be well it's like a crop top my midriff's okay so it I think the hard part is um is defining and we're at what point where does where does that stop and and it's always a fine line like Mrs Anderson said everyone in this topic is going to have different opinions different thoughts um based on our own personal um appropriate style I I agree when I had my great niece and nephew and she had really long legs and to try and find shorts that were not were not booty shorts that actually covered her entire butt was very difficult because she was skinny and she had very long legs um so I hear you with the style of clothes and what's available out there too makes it a little bit more difficult um on what we can find um and Mrs Anderson you know that's a great point on um the part of adults being comfortable or uncomfortable and it's hard because this is a district policy and we know um the younger we are and how very innocent that starts and it's just someone's stomach and it's it's no big deal um to you're getting into high school and you're getting into the older high school and Mrs Wade I appreciate how um or Mr President Schultz you said you just don't see that disrupting the environment well um when you have boys and girls and something could be potentially exposed then and hormones that that could be disruptive to others um just on a natural behavior um and so it's like how do we keep not having them distract each other um so I think I think the hard part is is that we're trying to get away from defining um to a point because teachers don't have time is this long enough here's stand up put your arms straight down or your fingertips you know does it go below your fingertips and I I think we're away from those days but the hard part is that what does that mean I mean is there a portion of the midriff that's okay and then there's a portion that's not um and so this one is particularly hard and I agree it is definitely just proportionate to females I know that people are going to be likely to address a female um in this fashion than they would have male not trying to pick on any particular group I'm just using it as an example you notice your football players when they're wearing their football shirts jerseys game days their bellies are exposed I mean you see the belly buttons who I you know and so are they going to be more apt to address a male like that probably not so I think it's I don't know what the answer is on how how do you define how do you figure out the enforcement um and things like that and across the district and at what grade level does it change does it change at a grade level um and the first thing I thought and we've done so well at this and it I think it's just the timing I have found it to be pretty amazing if we were to take this to our students and ask them what they feel is acceptable nine out of ten times they're harder on nope they shouldn't do this and they shouldn't wear this and they shouldn't wear that um but I would like at some point um that we do check with our students and we're up here talking about what may or may not make someone comfortable or uncomfortable it's their learning environment and I agree there's a point because you have adults there too but it's their learning environment too so what what does make them comfortable and uncomfortable um so that's just a thought I I would like it at some point um that we see with their their thoughts are on on dress codes and what they would find appropriate not appropriate but I have found that they're harder on their own peers than than we do so Mrs Wade sorry to to add to what board member Reese uh expressed I do believe that at the end of the day when we give kids the opportunity to um be individual humans and allow them responsibility and choice that they routinely go above and beyond and I recognize that people make mistakes because we're humans and you know that happens I have had the benefit of working in multiple schools and in multiple States and I have had a school that had a simple dress code of no Gang Related no drug related and violence and learning went just fine we have higher institutions of the same thing where you could our group arguably you know Express that the interactions among students are far greater and more intense and learning happens just the same I find the message that we are expressing to our children to look at their bodies in a sexualized nature we routinely have people in the community come up and talk about how they're concerned with our efforts to sexualize kids and in my opinion that's what this does completely and for each individuals that have their own beliefs within your household and those types of things nobody is telling you that you have to change how that happens right because it is up to your choice when you come to the school to do these types of things and as far as staff members are concerned we also are adults and have the capability of recognizing what is a disruption in the classroom and what is not a disruption in the classroom and with respect to time you're right I don't care what you're wearing as far as day in and day out and when we have other types of things as far as spirit days where I came to school dressed as Jabba the Hutt I go what are we talking about with respect to professionals like these are kids they're not in a job and I recognize that at the end of the day this is the most job that they have but we need to allow freedom to exist as humans and find themselves in the safest space that we have available to them which would be that of primary schools Secondary School Etc and I think part of the reason that kids find themselves so judgmental of everyone else is because we are pushing our ideals and morals and judgments on to them in those circumstances and at the end of the day we are all now of the age in which we look at stuff and are like my God right I mean I there are certain things that I'm like we left that style to die in the 90s and yet here it is um but that's not for us to see right I I think at the end of the day the efforts that we are making we all have the same goals in mind and to give our kids the freedom of being human beings and at the same time not saying that one person's body is sexualized and and targeting it in that way because that's how it always happens and it always happens and if we reaffirm it with these types of policies it will continue to happen for generations to come because that's what was done to us and so I'm My Hope Is and I'm asking at the very least to consider we obviously have time to make changes and assessments before we do that but to consider where we are at and what our position can mean for our young daughters and sons as they progress because the same is true for for my son in the same way that he deserves to understand that a person's stomach is just in fact their stomach we all have them some belly buttons are weird and that's okay this is way I agree with you and well Mrs Reese and Miss Anderson I understand what you're saying about uh making people feel uncomfortable but I agree with Mrs Wade that we have continually sexualized children's bodies and that's not something we should do and staff feeling uncomfortable is something that we need staff that needs more education or that we shouldn't be sexualizing a child's body to make them feel uncomfortable and especially females and but I do love the idea of getting children's input on this and we could have a committee for everything and a community for everything and we go over policies right so getting the kids input on this at all grade level makes sense to me president Schultz what about parents input um I mean I think parents should be involved in that too um you know my kid might love wearing shorts with her butt cheeks hanging out doesn't mean she's leaving the house like that in the morning um so I think parents input is is important as well um but we can't we also can't sit here and and think that policies like that can't happen I mean it it happens it's it happens every day at my daughter's charter school I mean there's a set policy kids can't wear certain clothing and it is what it is um the unfortunate thing is no we do not want children to be sexualized but the problem is it happens unfortunately it happens not by you know not only by adults but also by other students um how awful would it be if because of you know let's say we don't put a limit on how short a shirt can be and somebody does wear a sports bra to school and whatever and there's an incident and and something happens at school between two students and who's ultimately responsible for that the district um does that open us up for a lawsuit I mean there's so many things that could happen and we have to also consider that we can't have teachers again measuring okay we're allowing one inch two inches three inches um and you know teachers are having to take out a tape measure or whatever um it's got to be one or nothing at all and what option do we choose and does that open us up for liability potentially presidential in Boardman Van Hook I would like to I mean there are a couple things I'd like to unpack with that the first is uh I agree with you that parents matter and as you expressed if you have a problem with what it is that your child is wearing that is something that you should discuss in the home I don't think it's our space to say what somebody should or should not feel comfortable with personally and those types of things and the benefit of having that is it gives the opportunity for individuals to live within their own Comfort uh as far as the idea of what if it happens I recognize that and as somebody who suffers from anxiety I spend most of my time in the what if but I think we also have to be realistic in understanding that we cannot perpetually exist in a space of when other people decide to do action and if you have a situation in which you say what if you have people who have been the victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment wearing with very little Skin showing the clothing is not what's there and if you're concerned with the idea of how do we teach to make sure these things don't happen and that starts with us it starts with us expressing that this is right or wrong my child knows the oven is hot because I tell them no my child knows not to walk up and take something from somebody because I tell them that's not okay when we tell kids that their bodies aren't okay we are reinforcing that aspect and whether we intend to do it or not we disproportionately do it for females versus males and I recognize that there are circumstances of being uncomfortable as a teacher and what you talk about and how you do certain kinds of things I live in uncomfort constantly as a teacher with the things that the students talk about with the things that they are engaging in because they are quasi-adults trying to exhibit adult-like behavior and that is always and perpetually uncomfortable we are trying to police a normal aspect of life and growth in a way that I don't think is reflective of what is best for overall equity and how we can maintain that same process I I literally exist in a space that if we constantly worry how other people are going to respond to what is that saying to our children if you have within your home and that any parent have within their home that that is not what we are okay about and that is not what we approve in our household that is fine that is what you are designed to do as the parent to say that we as a school have to dictate what that is for all of our students I don't think is fair or adequate and definitely doesn't represent equity also I I recognize the idea that an individual showing up in a sports bra but let's also talk about let's say you run track right and it's summer and it's hot and you're outside running track we have swim literally same things in the classroom I'm gonna go with two things one you're gonna be cold and no I will absolutely not turn that air down right like that's that's how it happens routinely I've taught in Maryland and some of the outfits that individuals would wear and be like girlfriend don't tell me you're not cold I'm cold looking at you that's not my space to say what should or should not be done and within the home you have absolute right and control to do so but perpetually trying to avoid the negative behaviors of others by telling them that this is something they should police only perpetuates that negative behavior presidentials um again I we're always going to have some part that we're going to agree or disagree with this is this is going to be terribly difficult to set to say it can be free and open or um set parameters but the point of policy is to enable consistency and Clarity and if we say like jobs say these this is our policy for clothing whether you're a police officer you're a teacher you work in an engineering field or whatever they still have their dress code and policy and a policy again enables us to say okay these are expectations that way we can be consistent with everybody and we're not sitting here playing the game of you and you and not you but this is okay we're going to spend time measuring and trying to figure out every day what is appropriate for this person or whomever so I'm with Christine I don't have an answer for this but the point of policy is sticking to setting it for everybody to follow and go home and dress exactly how you would like to dress but I don't dress how I want to dress at my professional job I can't even wear jeans except for on Fridays unless I wear my Bulldog t-shirt you know boy would I like to wear jeans every day but I can't because that is the policy for dress for the Professionals in my school and again there's little room to no room to give for that so that we can maintain consistency and order if you will as we maintain an academic environment but thank you I would just like to be a part of a solution that doesn't continue to sexualize girls bodies and continues to make girls feel bad about their bodies because of what other people might think or do and that's all I have to say about that any other questions comments concerns and we'll get continue with this yeah president Schultz governing board thank you for the very healthy and robust conversation I think you represent a a multiple parents and this is helpful for us to hear your context so that we can take this back and some of the feedback and suggestions you have and we can decide who else and what else we need to do before we bring back a recommendation obviously this is one that will take us some while to get something that I think that would capture the perspectives that you've shared with us so but thank you for giving us an opportunity to hear what you're thinking about this to help us guide this work on this next step and presidential I just want to clarify too I think parent input is important I think the point like Mrs Anderson brought I look at this as what's considered socially acceptable on our campus and in our schools and then from there parents dictate like Mrs Wade said what's appropriate in their home what's not um what are their kids walking out in and what they're not we've all seen the kids who show up in school and one show up in one thing they come out of the bathroom in another um because obviously they know that that's not acceptable for their home but that that's not for us to handle in police that's between them and their their parent in that aspect but I do think parents options are important and I I look at this as the framework of what we would consider creating a safe socially acceptable campus environment and then their parent goes from there so thank you Mr rocker you're welcome yeah the entire time moving on to action items 8.1 approval of the fiscal year 2023 budget revision number three uh I'd like to make a motion to approve fiscal year 2023 budget revision number three seconded all those in favor aye motion passes five to zero 8.2 approval of GMP number four I make a motion to approve GMP number four for phase two weatherization of Higley High School project to Chase Building team second questions comments concerns I forgot that part no you're gonna all those in favor aye motion carries five to zero eight point three I move that we authorize the authorization of the expenditure substitute teachers increase of Educational Service Inc questions comments concerns presidential this is Reese I just want to indicate I am concerned on this and it does bother me um we're almost doubling our original authorization and our original authorization was already taken into account we increased it from what it was already um we said okay this is what we learned from last year so we're going to give us ourselves some cushion and we're going to increase it and then just in March we said you know what we're going to ask for another increase because we don't want to keep coming back so we're going to try and give ourselves another cushion we're not two months later and we're here again and essentially we're almost doubling our original authorization um I am concerned that um we went over budget in third quarter and we're in this position that essentially we need to approve this because we're over I mean we we've exceeded um so um that's concerning to me I would like to ask I mean ESI is not going away um we're going to have Subs it's an ongoing thing um that we we anticipated some inflation obviously we couldn't anticipate for how much because we had this conversation where like everything's gonna go up we know that it had started we couldn't tell how much but I would like that we look at this all the way around multifaceted what are we spending um how are we spending it um is there any other alternative Solutions uh you know and I know we look at that all the time and it's on your mind as well um as well as how do we address the amount of absences that we're having um and I know that that some have to happen I get it I know people go on long-term leave maternity leave medical leave um but we also can't operate in this fashion we do need our employees to show up we we have our kids are coming whether they are or not um and so I'm just asking that if we're having some repeated attendance issues that those are being addressed because that that is costing the district um I'm not saying we are or not but to look at it multi-facetably that where are we why are we here and what can we do for the future I agree with this and we increase the sub budget we we don't want our teachers to have to use their prep time um and things like that we want to be able to provide subs and and have those for kids um but like I said this this is bothersome to me that we are at this end of the school year we're doubling all of sorry I'll live less than 50 000 we're doubling our our initial budget that we had for this um and we just approved an increase two months ago so um I just wanted to say that and just ask that I know you guys think about it too but just please let's look and see what alternatives we can do how we can maybe better plan um and and see what we can do with that so to that point I that's kind of why I asked earlier about lowering the eight years of service um because I feel like if we lower it we might be in a worse situation because people with less years of service might decide to take yeah so we we need to think about that um when when it comes time to deciding whether we lower that years of service sadly it happens thank you Mrs I agree with you this is why presidentials they have two things one I don't think it's going to solve the concern it's just out of curiosity of our long-term Subs not for medical leave maternity leave those kinds of things how many positions are we filling with long-term Subs because we don't have a certified teacher to be in that position if any like because that would come out of the same fund again it would be a smaller amount in general I recognize and ultimately we would still have to pay the budget because if it's not from the sub it's salary but to my knowledge there are none okay and then the the other thing for the the eight years just for clarify before we go for it and I I recognize it's not something for today the idea behind that is if I'm leaving and I know that I'm leaving and I'm less than eight years and I have so many hours saved up then I just start burning my days because when I leave the district I don't get paid out for them so for example I left after teaching four years and I in that four years with the exception when I went on maternity leave with my son because he came two months early I never took a day and I lost all of that time so that was what Mrs Anderson's question previously was is if you know that you are leaving the district for whatever reason and you know that you're not getting paid out for days you earn you take those days and that could be what her question was referring to earlier seventh any other questions comments concerns all those in favor I all those opposed or any opposed five to zero I move that we approve eight I move I may make a motion to approve 8.4 ratify payroll and expense vouchers second Christine questions comments concerns all those in favor aye motion carries five to zero moving on to 8.5 I make a motion to approve asba policy Services renewal second okay questions comments concerns um president Schultz um I do have a concern with renewing the contract for four years um I was aware that uh Queen Creek uses a different system what I'm not aware is whether that allows them to do annual renewals um I would like to see other options and um you know if there's a cost savings potentially with a different company [Music] um yeah so um with that concern and not having the ability um to do it annually if we decide within the next four years to end the contract then they get to keep 50 percent so um I don't like that president Schultz board member Van Hook we don't either one of the things that we did you'll notice that I received this back in March and immediately they send they start sending you a contract sign sign sign I said no no we're going to take this to the board we have met with the model policy group they're still in the beginning stages of this we're looking at potentially moving over to a different platform but there's lots of parts and pieces as you know we use both advisories as we are looking at that to bring recommendations to you one of the components that this holds is board docs we reached out to uh that this this includes our ability to keep our platform if you go away from that you have to do board docs separately which adds an additional cost so we reached out to asba to determine whether or not they would give us something less than four years and the answer was a resounding no so we did explore that which is one of the reasons the delay in bringing it back because this was the next board meeting since we heard back from them that they would not offer us a single year um so the issue is is that we are not are we do not feel that we are ready to drop everything board docs we have been working so hard to go through those policies and look at both advisories to bring the very very best one and get them good our feeling was until we see that this other one is is functions the way we want it to we don't want to step away from the format um we have a real need here in Higley we like to Higley eyes things so one of the things we've been bringing is the policy advisories from both sides looking at them looking at other examples hearing feedback from those who are closest to it and bringing it to you and either we keep the copyright or we don't at this moment this is the only option we have with asba and as a team didn't feel we were ready to step away from it and weren't able to negotiate they don't give you a one-year option president Schultz so by saying you're using both are you does that mean you're using the same one that Queen Creek is using as well we receive policy advisories from both groups we we because we want both um and they're written a little bit differently both of them utilize lawyers both of them are structured a little bit differently one some are more lawyer friendly some are more practitioner friendly and we like to have both examples so that when we look at it as a team we can determine how we want to if we want to modify or choose one over the other we do it's very inexpensive to just receive the advisories and so we we use both for me like I think it's silly that you know they take state law and put it into their own words and copyright it and then we adopt it as policy I mean it's state law so I feel like we have to follow it no matter what whether we adopt it or not um so when it comes to that when you would let's say dress code policy so when you compare one to the other like how different is it some are more updated than others model policy is still also being developed and when we met with them we also met with them I think in the May I'm sorry March end of March middle of March February March we met with them and and they are still finishing parts and pieces so we couldn't see all of them and so some of them adopted and rolled over our feeling at this time was we like to utilize both examples because sometimes they're very similar and sometimes they're very different and there's different perspectives depending upon the group that who's recently reviewed them the model policy group because they're going through all of them are probably more current and they're using more of a preg you know more lawyer perspective and asba is doing the same you heard last week when we had our Retreat you heard Chris talk about you know one of the things asba had was they had missed an update in an advisory that's going to cause some districts to have to update their policies this is something we're constantly doing and we try try really hard to stay on top of it so again we like having the resources to bring the very best one to it anytime we modify either one of them many of ours have copyrights on them and many of them don't we remove them we have an attorney review it one more time to make sure before we bring it to you some of the policies are pretty straightforward as far as the law some like dress code for just example there's multiple interpretations and recommendations depending upon who was part of creating the policy advisory for the district and is it possible to start getting that information from I forget the name of it the one the one that Queen Creek uses but to be able to get information from them maybe if we did decide to switch to them would they consider kind of buying paying for our fee to move away from asba um if if we can look into those and see what the numbers are and if it makes sense so if we do decide to move to them that you know if they're able to pay for our fee with asthma that we could potentially move even before the four years is up I think that we can bring we have been in conversations with Jen McLennan who has been who's moved over to the model policy group in her team we've met with them we are also because we're kind of with asba right now our goal for us as our team is to make sure our policies are as strong as possible and they are as updated as possible that was something that a newer leadership team we inherited that was not as as comprehensive and as up to date we had hoped so we literally are going through Section by section and we are all about providing the best product and resources I don't have the answers to whether or not they'd be willing to pay it off for us but I know they're willing to work with us because they're going to help us audit what we have to determine our biggest priorities to come for for updates in some of those policies that haven't been touched for a while for instance um dress code so more to come the issue is is at this moment we aren't willing to step away from the platform we have as we're doing this important work with both policy advisories and we're only offered a four-year contract we have email exchanges back and forth with them and they basically said it wasn't an option thank you made phone calls as well tried again um and it wasn't an option you mentioned board docs would be a separate cost what is that cost board docs at this time board docs is the platform that ASPCA uses for their policy and it would be a separate it's a separate we'd have to pay like a subscription okay if we wanted to continue using board docs or you can choose other platforms so my thought would be before we would ever make a suggestion to stop what we are doing we keep all of our policy work going wherever we choose to host it or house it is a platform issue and I think we bring in and have uh the the vendors show it to the governing board to help make decisions as when we get closer to that point and we feel comfortable to go away from what we have to what we want to move toward so at this moment we are paralleling both platforms we do we have one platform we have board docs we're using the advisories from asba but we're also using the advisories as a resource from the trust so we we don't know what word docs would cost us separately I don't have it I don't have I don't have it this I know it's not free I know there's an Acosta I do not have the exact amount of what board docs would be by itself but if we chose to continue to platform in board docs we would end up meaning to pay for that separately and what's the cost of the program the quick the other program the Queen Creek program at the trust and model policy I don't have that the model policy we're piloting right now for a thousand dollars yeah a thousand a year just for the advisories okay but we don't know what their full program would be is it year to year yeah that's a year to year agreement and um yeah currently that's the the only I think it's just a thousand so from year to year so for that service so so if I'm hearing correctly basically we're we're in a tight space given timelines of current things but with with valid concerns as far as cost and those types of things at the very least to look into going for it I mean in terms of like what would board Dogs cost us when you evaluate this the the the aspect of that I think another benefit at least being part of one of these is because as these groups can Lobby directly to state legislatures they're more aware of certain things that will pass or won't pass sometimes as far as like giving us heads up or those types of things so I mean at the very least going forward to look into Costa is smart to do anything quickly or what is our deadline to approve the renewal our our thing expires through June 30th so if you wanted to again they send the renewal to you in in March we probed back we're only given um the only option is a four-year I mean we have two additional meetings where if we wanted to bring back additional information on what is the cost of board docs separately the issue is is to launch this happens overnight uh I mean to launch this doesn't happen overnight and I just don't want us to not have our um platform or our policies that are at our fingers particularly when we're working so hard to get them in really good order foreign so actually I'm gonna let you go ahead and then I just lost my train at that if if this is been going to get tabled or pushed to another meeting um I want to ask this question and if and you don't have to answer today but I would love to know your professional opinion you're the superintendent what is your opinion why would you advocate for asthma why would you want to keep it laughs my I appreciate you asking the question my the reality is is I have a team that's working very very hard to update these policies and to get the content of what is in the policies up to date we've been working really hard to make sure we had a lot of policies that we inherited where there was no additional regulations or exhibits or artifacts we have policies as you know has been a priority in our strategic plan where processes and procedures you've heard that theme over and over and over again well that's because we have policies that aren't being implemented consistently all over the place because there was no regulation in training and follow-through I have been more worried about the quality and caliber of the implementation of the policies and getting them up to date rather than what platform we want to use I I am I this is a Time intensive process um we're hearing just our conversation let's use the dress code as an example if we decide to Branch out our working task teams to involve parents teachers children students to get things done and get them done in time trying to learn a whole new system and how we access those those things in a literally months worth of time before we start school would be a real challenge I feel like I feel like our policies could the quality and caliber of what is in the policies is more important to me at this moment than whether because I'm using asba policy advisories and model policies I want to be able to just keep us in board docs in the platform for a while so we can get them right but I also understand the the concern about the cost for four years if we want to shift them but when we when we're talking about what is my recommendation I think you'll be putting your team in an entirely terrible situation to try and launch a whole new model policy platform all we'll be doing is organizing and formatting our existing old outdated policies into this new format and to me that that would be I would rather is if we're going to make that shift have the policies in great order and have have feel really good about it so again I our team will respond to what the governing board decides and wants to do I will tell you that the timeline is not ideal and yet the contract for four years isn't either is there an option to help incentivize us you know the hard part is I have found is working with other entities they really that that for profit our ability to negotiate is limited to what they're willing to agree to do even even when I tell them our governing board wants this they would appreciate that perspective but may not always do it um I would say that if if we try and do this overnight we're going to end up with with a real hassle so for somebody to reach out to Queen Creek and see what that entailed for them because they were I think because at least when I went to their website it was fairly recent that it happened it was it was just done I would love to know what did it what that entailed for them and how long and how difficult was it and asked her staff and and um they're still using Boardman are they still using board docs do you know um no I don't think so they're building a different platform different it looks different it feels different yeah well my understanding is um Queen Creek moved completely away from asba not only board docs but they cut ties completely um I would like to know um I mean if if we can I guess if I I'd like to you know I don't know um I'd like to make a motion to table this for the next meeting and hopefully we can get some answers as far as what it would cost to have a subscription to board docs with a new company if the new company is willing to um buy us out of you know if if we were to go with asthma and decide we're going to move if they'd be willing to do it they they'd probably say no because they'd probably want us to go directly with them but it doesn't hurt to ask um and if we can have all that detail and then we can make a decision at that time and now you said it would be difficult because it doesn't happen overnight now what would change since we already have access wouldn't that access just continue if we sign the new contract my that would be is if we didn't have if we don't have the other system already up and ready to go and have been organized and had time to transfer it all over to lose access to our system now with all of our policies in there because we didn't renew the subscription would be a problem because right now board docs holds the board docs holds all of our policies and our regulations and things so that if if the transition time to the new platform with all those other pieces couldn't happen in time I wouldn't want us to go in as we're starting the school year to not have immediate access to our new policy manual because this will be a very time intensive process and it'll also require training with our administrators and everything about where we go how we access how we find um how we find that so again it's just a matter of making a big shift quickly overnight and and if possible can we get like maybe screenshots of what that new system would look like compared to board Docs yes thank you I was going to say we have them yeah we have a motion on the table so we need to have a second before we can move to table it I'll second the motion to table for the next meeting any other questions yes question comment yeah I was going to say I had some questions too I was just gonna ask I mean obviously she covered a lot of the same questions but if for me if it could just be a side-by-side comparison what what services I mean we get more than just policies from asba like what does our membership cover what what services and everything does that cover and what they offer and then um with this other company is it just policy what services do they offer the price comparison um and then there are some other aspects to it there's just so much because the law conference is still very good I still think our Administration needs to attend the asba law conference you pay non-member prices which are much greater so I mean if you can if you can look at that I mean even though we pay to attend the law conference and the new board member training in the annual conference the non-member price is much greater so if we can just kind of get estimates I know that's a lot of work I know it's the a bad time of year because we have so much going on um but these are all questions I think that help answer um where do we go presidential um realistically Dr Foley is this information Something That We're because if if it took as long as it did to get some of that information back from the asba I think something else we need to keep in mind is any other program that we switch to is still going to have a cost I get that we pay a thousand dollars for the the trust one out of Queen Creek but that's because we only have a portion of it not the full entity of different things and so like I recognize that the cost of what they charge and the nature of what it is I don't Envision the asba being so disproportionately overcharged because these other programs exist right like I mean that's the nature of a free market is the idea that you're paying for certain programs and if other things that exist they can do the same stuff what is it that we're paying for and I recognize that the timeline is is really the biggest concern and ultimately there is more than just Financial cost if we completely implode what decision it is that we're making without and I don't personally at the present moment in time feel comfortable enough making a decision that might have consequences or ramifications that we can't foresee in the next year because we're trying to get it done in a month and I recognize that that's not by choice how we are at this timetable and so I guess my concern is we are making efforts to move away from something to go towards something else that is equally going to cost and some of that cost is also time and hours and Manpower in order to do the same thing it's further meetings of policies that we've already adapted that we have to routinely do again and and so it's more than just the financial aspect of some of these things so my question is this this this stuff that we're requesting to get Is it feasible to get a comprehensive thing in time for us to be able to make this decision before our contract runs out so we are not getting ourselves in trouble or is the long-term safety might be spending slightly more in the interim for the next four years and I recognize the four-year contract's not great there's nothing we can do about that that's it's like Verizon every time I tell them I hate how much they charge me they know I need them more than they need me kind of deal so I just want to make sure that in our efforts to do this we're not we're not hastily making a decision to try to save cost and what we're saving is merely hundreds of dollars instead of thousands at the grand scheme of things that's only going to cost each one of us the cabinet and all of our staff more hours later because that still has a financial cost to it I appreciate that perspective I think what we will do obviously when you're at the when you're at the mercy of vendors and you're going to be asking questions we'll get back what information we have as comprehensively as possible I think that the amount of man hours that will be on the district team will be substantial in the months that several people may be not here as we prepare to take their earned vacation time uh at a time before we launch a school year so I think I I want to be conservative and careful with funds but for the fund amount for the proportion that it could be problematic my I would lead toward your Pennywise pound foolish conversation is going to take a lot of time my and I shared with you our priority is to make sure our policies are being our policies are in good place and they're being implemented appropriately and that there's good regulations and um exhibits behind them and that's been that's where we have focused our time if we're going to shift into an entire different um piece then that's and and that's the direct the desire of the governing board then our focus and priority is going to shift and what we've been doing and how we're going to be doing it and I completely agree and that's why I'd like some comparison I don't want you to spend a lot of time yeah on I I mean I don't want you to spend a lot of time on the information I just I need to visualize what one offers over the other because I I agree I know that we get more than just policies from asba but I don't know what else this other company even offers so I mean if they only do policy then I yes then that cost is going to be different and I wouldn't want to put anything any of our staff through any of that I just need to compare what the services are I mean what do we get compare um and like I said just a a brief overview of an approximate extra two hundred dollars for the law con you know that's all I'm asking for I don't want you just for me I'm guessing they have that they would have an information sheet that just shows like this is how much more you would pay as a non-member right it's something you can just look at one of their registration forms I'm not asking to spend a lot of time on I just need more of a comparison because I really don't I really don't know what I'm comparison comparing and like you said I don't know what I would be saving if we made a change um between actual dollars to the vendor or dollars to our staff and would we suffer in what we actually get out of it if we left asba so I just don't know I just want that comparison on what the two services do president Schultz so by this agreement this isn't this is just for the board docs and the policies right this is your platform this is this is this is for your agreement for for the policies and your board docs so this has nothing to do with the relationship with asba as far as membership and trainings and anything of that sort this is this is your policies and board docs there thank you okay can we go ahead um if this does move forward with being tabled um I just want to made a great uh comment of and taking in your information about the transition it would take in the time and I do not want to waste any more time I know everybody's working terribly hard um just through each day um so it would be great to get that information but I do want to make the comment I've been to the law conference and I believe the um consensus from last year's law conferences it wasn't really that great um so if we're getting mediocre information and that's what we're paying extra for and trying to hold on to for the reason to stay with them then I would I would make sure that they understand we're not going to continue the service if you're going to give us mediocre conferences you know I've been to one years and years and years ago when I was born secretary and it was great and I was excited to learn but at that time I didn't know what I didn't know also I've been to the delegate assembly and that that was fantastic and it was great to hear the perspectives of everyone but again I I don't know if we didn't go and attend that would that really be detrimental to our district I'm sorry oh okay um I did I did ask the question um for sending the questions early of what percent of their services do we use and how often and unfortunately and I know these questions take up your time and the responses we use resources as we needed but if if we're gonna if this does move forward being tabled can I get can we get a more detailed answer of what are you valuing and using exactly if you can I know that's going to take up your time Dr Foley but if we're truly going to make the right decision I understand that the policies and the convenience um and you and the calibration and everything you mentioned is 100 important and I don't think any one of us disagrees with that but what else are we getting out of asthma and are you finding that you are using and finding valuable to the operations of this District okay sorry thank you well and if this is only the policy and board Docs which I was assuming it was asba so maybe shame on me the way I read it was this is so this is only policy and only board docs your policy Services subscription agreements Okay so yeah then I think the only thing we would need to know or I won't say we I should say I would what is the cost if we stayed with board docs on our own um and what what is this other um offering so just a small comparison because if it's not all that then don't spend all that time um but yeah just a comparison and what is board docs on our own if we got it and um and kind of go from there we would also sorry board member or presidential uh the timeline of switching I I again I recognize that it does not feel good making these decisions with a very tight timeline at all the point is we don't want to lapse in anything because that causes far more problems than anything else and I think all of these questions are valid because the cost and everything else especially if this is separate from being a member or whatever else all that other stuff is and and if this does take time and how we progress for the next four years I I guess my biggest concern is in our efforts to try to save some of this what is the switchover and the detriment that that could cause in the short interim um and I I also recognize that it doesn't feel smart to financially live in that existence but we are unfortunately in that position at the present moment so with that information if if we have time to be able to say okay this is what board docs would cost us and then at the next meeting recognize and understand what that changeover would look like is it a possibility or is there a lapse because if there's a lapse I don't think the benefits outweigh the the detriment and that that cost but then the benefit is we buy ourselves four years of time to come up with answers to all of these questions that take a ridiculous amount of time to do that and we give you then years instead of days in order to be able to provide some of that info completely agree with you on there the thing is we're paying 6 100 right now for policies if we're paying them a thousand and this was 5100 we're paying 6100 if theirs is still a thousand dollars and board docs is I'm just throwing a number out there keeping it simple is three thousand for us to maintain on our own right there we're saving 2 000 per year over the next four years and I don't want to do that to you guys but there is an overall cost to that too so it's information I guess at this point and yes it's unfortunate you've been trying to ask and and it's unfortunate the timing is coming before us um for us to try and get more information thank you for not knowing this so the other asthma stuff is a whole different membership than the delegate assembly and all that so being a member and getting the member prices for those is a completely different entity okay and is there a bundle like if like when Cox used to do that oh if you drop this and all sudden your prices went up and you thought you were dropping a service is that do you does is that how it works with asthma like if we drop the policy Services as our other membership fee going to be different because of that do you know presidentials vice president Anderson I don't want to speak out of turn I really will look at if we will we we will provide additional information and be sure that we understand all the options no apologies currently ready president Schultz um isn't the asthma membership individual based it's per person isn't it it's not District it's per person so technically if if we're not paying membership fees for us we aren't we don't have a membership as board members yeah so we would have to the district would be half would have to pay for our membership for us to get a discount so for instance we went to the um the first class that they offered for new board members um I don't think that that was at a discounted rate because we weren't members and any course offered after the fact in order to qualify for the membership rate we have to become members so um it's an individual membership currently on the table is to table 8.5 approve a 8.5 the approval of ASB a policy Services renewal all those in favor I any opposed motion is denied zero to five and we will look for more information approved I'm sorry yep approved approved approved zero to five yes we will table this until the June 7th meeting printing more information regarding that moving on to 8.6 approval to increase I made commotion to approve the increase the annual cumulative spend for vendors listed below on Cooperative contracts over a hundred thousand for fiscal year 2022-2023 seconded questions comments concerns this is 8.6 [Music] um so I do have one item that's on there um well two items uh there's near pods and there is Renaissance um my issue with near pods is um it's it's about the whole child district-wide initiative which promotes d-i-s-e-l Equitable classrooms implicit bias in classrooms restorative practices restorative justice pronoun shift intro to equity um and I know that there are parents in this District that do not support this um and near pods falls under Renaissance and so it's it's a major concern of mine as well you know some people might be okay with it um some might not be some aren't okay with it um I I believe that it's um you know any curriculum that does this I think is as divisive it's also going to be used if it's going to be used continued use in our district I think that there needs to be an opt-out option um our purpose again is academics and I think by implementing these ideologies we're moving away from that and we need to ensure that we stay with academics um and as far as uh you know Renaissance goes I mean their their entire websites all about Dei um and you know there they have their action we have created a fully organized Dei culture that involves people throughout the organization and is embedded within every structure of Renaissance so [Music] um diversity to create a bias-free Equitable Talent acquisition and employee development process um Equity to promote educational Equity by ensuring our products adhere to strict guidelines for content appropriateness and reflect the diversity of today's classroom um to create an inclusive and attractive company culture for underrepresented employees I know in our district I hope there are no underrepresented represented employees so I I just I want to ensure that um we again concentrate on academics and with organizations I think at some point a lot of these organizations had good intentions um and I think that the focus has changed and uh all these educational organizations are shifting um to these ideologies and it's pretty unfortunate to see um because I think it it creates a division between our community when we're going with you know one sort of belief and and these ideologies and then we're ignoring a whole separate um group of people and when we bring it back to academics and ensure that we're concentrating on academics that involves everybody um I mean you want to talk inclusivity um how how much more inclusive can we be if we're we're paying attention to academics and not these ideologies that's all okay excuse me board member Dan hook we had we've had several discussions with the ed services team so when the decision was made this year to provide the resource of nearpod the training focuses on the Arizona State Standards and using those academic resources embedded within that system so our teachers go through extensive training our technology coaches Valerie Thomas and Janie Ramirez have done most of this training doctor treats involved to make sure that we're clearly communicating the teachers are raving about what a great resource this is in terms of science and math and Ela so there are always there are always things out there that somebody could go grab from YouTube or anything that as professionals we are training our teachers to use this resource for academic purposes and the components within it where you grab the standard and it takes you to the lessons it's pretty incredible it's a really good resource I'm hearing your concerns but that's not the purpose for us using that but what I mean because Renaissance and so is so big on these my fear is that these lessons include these same visions that Renaissance has so are we teaching with these lessons that they have are we teaching Dei and ultimately I mean these are all part of you know we claim we don't have CRT it's in our district but the this is a part of critical race Theory um so do these curriculums contain these ideologies so the components of near pod we have told the teachers how to access the lessons aligned to their standards academic standards they've also been trained that something before you use it and with anything any lessons curriculum books anything we use parents can opt out and we'll give them an alternative activity but the feedback that we're receiving on this particular resource is extremely positive okay so there so there will be an opt-out form available for well we always have a knocked out process that our parents can use so that goes for everything okay I think the Renaissance piece about the assessment package I don't know if we want to wait till um what is it 8.8 because I have Marcus Berkshire here to discuss the assessment pieces within that I mean I I can I can speak on that too I I plan on speaking on that too I know but do you want to come back to that component um after these other items here 8.7 I don't know if we're done with 8.6 it's real Renaissance yes we'll have to right sorry 8.6 is the Trump is what we're talking about now right so we have to stay with this one before we move on to 8.7 I'd also like to say I believe our teachers are following the standards and teaching our kids what the standards are and I have faith in our teachers and what they do in the district and and and never have had a question um I unfortunately have seen instances where um teachers have crossed the line um and I've had this conversation with Dr Foley and you know I I want to ensure that as I've stated before once you teach something you can't unteach it um so yes we want to ensure that teachers are following the law staying within State Standards but you know with what I've seen um that's not a hundred percent of of the case but um I mean I would love it for for it to be but it's it's not always the case so parents are concerned so president board member sorry board member Van Hook if if there occursive situation that we need to address then we work with Administration to address it so I'm not going to tell you but every person is perfect all of the time but our job is to make sure we train and we support our teachers on what they're teaching and how they're teaching it and if somebody has a misstep then our job is to support and improve so which happens in any organization in any uh profession that there's people that you know that that happens but the majority I feel sticking to the standard Mr Swede presidentials uh I I'm very happy to hear the positive feedback I think it is important to recognize that teachers are the ones who have to implement this curriculum and having something in place that makes it to where it is easy for us to see what state standard this aligns to so from a data perspective my kids are not doing well on this unit this specific item and it gives me the opportunity of being able to look at that um I I also think it's important for us to keep in mind that things like Equity aren't a danger the idea of creating a situation in which kids who might have other or differing environments in general in order to be able to process with that and so like for me from my perspective of giving the professional courtesy to the individuals who are using this day in and day out uh I I think that carries a lot of weight on how you manage your classroom and the curriculum that you are responsible for implementing and everything else uh considering I've had to work with Galileo and the individuals who have used those types of things and and understanding the programs and how much we have seen positive changes I think it's important for us to keep in mind the fact that overwhelmingly there is positive feedback for this program giving the idea that if teachers are enjoying it it is user friendly etc for both teachers and students the likelihood of us using it and helping to increase those academics is is really valuable one thing I didn't mention is kids can't go in there and just pick anything they want the teachers have to look at the standards selected and assign it to the kids so I think that's really important and I I do trust our teachers thank you Miss Richardson that's a great point I use I've used your nearpod and I I unders yeah it's a great platform for making interactive lessons um and whenever teachers are optioned I know it's used quite often because you can still continue learning and and they can run you can tell the program to run and make it move forward and quiz them and and anyway um but of course it's I've been on I use kahoot and quiz quizzes and Quizlet and everything I use them all because it's a great programs but of course um I I even took a screenshot of a kahoot which I thought was just a great thing of it was um you know somebody made it because you're you're looking at what other people are making and yeah it had something I found hateful and and you know but as a trained teacher and as my expectations I I said that's terrible and making sure I'm reading through everything and and that that's what I would hope and that and I hope that I know is happening and and we are um following through and making sure that students and parents feel comfortable speaking out if they see or hear anything that they feel like is against what our district is wanting for our students but I would just say all these all these platforms I've searched for lessons like hey if it's already made boy would I like to use it and there has been garbage that has showed up and I know it goes against whatever the district that I work in wouldn't want shown so we as long as we keep training and again keep parents and and students feeling comfortable reporting or or just saying hey what that doesn't seem to go with our curriculum I think that's great and I think this district has done a good job with that all those in favor of approving 8.6 I I post nay motion carries four to one moving on to 8.7 the approval of intergovernmental agreement between greater Phoenix educational management Council and AZ education management Council and Higley unified for fiscal years 2023-2028.

there are some districts that still believe in 24 it's okay but I am reading stuff that says there's people concerned uh 24 would obviously give us more time but we run the risk of a large number of Voters coming out just by the nature of the presidential election and that again for some districts their belief is that will help them and they're all for it others are saying ooh that's a bad idea so it just just depends there's so many things happening right now politically with some things even this week that that that everything could change in that political climate for the presidential election by by next year so what is on the 23rd is there anything else that's going out on a ballot or are we going to be it um I'll say for the most part we're going to be at there may be I don't know I have not seen it if other school districts you know are planning on going out I'm going to guess AJ's not to my knowledge I don't believe Florence is so so you're going to have a a very limited uh number of ballot issues in in 23 so that's the other issue that I didn't put up with them we're responsible for the The Lion's Share of the um of the ballot piece do you even know how much that is um I want to say when I was up in a Payson you were running in a at a 30 or 40 000 clip right um and so I'm guessing down here the other issue that's out there there was a report that just came out I think this weekend or maybe this week that of some of the problems that Pinal County had with their elections and it was a pretty blistering report and so you're running six months after a pretty blistering report about problems with the way they handled the last election so so it can go a couple different ways to be totally honest I think the whole state did um so um I just noticed that like being throughout the years that our community was very when we were out talking to people it was like they wanted it to be specific on what was where the money was going they just didn't think that they're they didn't want to just give money to to whatever you wanted to do with it does that make sense they wanted to be specific that's how the we got the bond pass for the pack because they knew exactly where it was going it was going for buses that were on the side of the road all over there it was going for technology so I think parents were on board the community was on board with that so I think that we had to be strategic into making sure that like our community knows exactly where their dollars are going right they're pretty sensitive about that and again if you we have to differentiate between Bond and overriding right um You can do that you have to be specific in both but obviously the bond is saying I'm going to do this this and that to the to my buildings um or I'm going to build a new building or whatever where's the the override obviously becomes an issue because of salaries and even if you're specific in where the salaries are and even if you go ahead because you have to and go ahead and do your report annually about where they go there's still a perception out there that oh it just went to and it didn't go to it got siphoned off type of thing uh the other issue was you know six and six the growth was coming and there were no charters right and so when it passed the kids only had one place to go in 11 and 12 you started to see the charters out here and so where the kids could go started to change radically different and therefore that's the more problematic issue right here right now is 57 percent of those families uh do not have kids in our system uh that may change a little bit over the next decade but I don't think you're going to also have you know 85 percent of the kids in the area going going to our schools that's just not Statewide you're lucky and you're on your best school districts only have 75 percent of their kids in the district there's no school district in the state of Arizona with more than 75 percent of the kids living in their districts attending the the those schools their schools My worry is that they're I understand what you're saying about the budget issues and I totally agree with you my worry is that that those four months really you don't even have four months because those those early ballots go out in September and if they don't know aren't educated in exactly what it's for that's going to be doesn't be difficult no it is because you're right your election your election is effectively over October 1st uh then the majority of people that that get early ballots turn it back in within the first week so those people that are going to go Beat the Streets the month of October like the old style was in many ways the election's already over and so so you really have to do something between August and September if you want to have um uh success and so again if we say we think we want to move forward with um 24 that's okay gives us more time but at least we want to have the conversation even if you say go 25 or bring it back uh next January and we can talk about 24 versus 25 that's okay but we just need to get direction and again also understand the impact when we say no just because um uh and there's nothing wrong with that trust me but but it but when we start having budget discussions which is what we're in the middle of right now we just need to understand that that it's getting harder and harder to squeeze dollars and dollars out I will tell you right now you'll get the confidence of the surveys that we've done you'll get all that information but pay in compensation is is very low rated by our employees and so so there's a thing here that says you're not paying us well enough but absent us doing this over here that's not going to change so we just have to recognize that not only the board and administration but also employees that absent this piece over here that you can wish one hope and pray all you want but it ain't going to happen without an override and so that becomes part of that conversation in part to also let the public understand what that means and so parents you can be upset with what our pay scale is but the everybody to the west of us is on the 15 plus and if I had 15 extra Julie can we do anything with 15 more money yeah and so we could go ahead and become more much more competitive and so we just have to recognize that if we're going to push it out to 24 or 25 and and that's okay I just want to make sure we're all having ongoing conversations about it so I think it'd be oh go ahead I think it'd be helpful to see uh you know what what will it cost to get it back going what what do we think we need to raise um what so the pack we can't do anything with that um no I know that but I'm saying you know who would who would we get to lead that who do we get to run it you know who their because there are Consultants out there you know how much would it cost I would like to see you know if we were to do this what what's the cost of the district and what would they recommend and all that kind of yeah I don't I I will suggest that the cost will be but I'll get I'll get the particulars but based on what's been done in other districts I've been in I'm guessing we would probably need to raise in in the in the range of 40 to 50 000.

I moved to approve the board meeting minutes for the special board meeting as presented a second all in favor aye three to zero I'll make I need a motion for uh approval of meeting minutes regular boarding meeting March 1st 2023. I moved to abort to approve the minutes for the March 1st regular board meeting minutes second all in favor aye aye aye carries um I'll need a motion for approval of minutes regular board meeting April 12 2023. I moved to approve the board meeting minutes for the April 12th regular board meeting a second all right motion carries three to zero so we have current events um so a superintendent report thank you madam president a couple different things and actually one's not up there but I'll bring you up to speed today the state budget was passed out of the house last night was passed out of the Senate 17.9 billion dollar budget I believe is what the what the number is although there's a lot of conversation about esas and capping esas which are vouchers for students to go ahead and go to private schools or home school there was no cap on the esa's the votes weren't there it's actually very simple math down at the legislature if you have 31 and you have 16 you win if you have less than 31 you have less than 16 you're not winning and that's just the way it is right now there's 31 Republicans and 16 Republicans in the house in the Senate therefore they're in favor of vouchers and so there wasn't going to be a lot of action on the voucher despite some of the rhetoric you may see in the papers but overall the budget still came out pretty good for us on a normal year we would have gotten a two percent increased tour and that's what we built the budget so the the budget recommendations we gave you at the last board meeting was based on the two percent increase to uh to our mno and actually by the time everything got said and done it's actually 2.93 percent depending on how you calculate it and we won't know the process will be they will transfer it to the governor tomorrow and then she'll have however many days it's I think it's five days to sign she'll sign you know right away because it's a bipartisan budget then Ade will get us out the forms for next year's budget that we have to have adopted by you guys by early July and so when we get those forms we'll know the numbers for sure but we would anticipate that the addition uh the addition of the of some of those dollars uh could be in there in the range of an additional eight hundred thousand dollars so is that for salaries it's Ramin oh it can go for salaries now it covers I'll talk about what we plan to do with it but it covers we we know that the increased raise or the total cost is 800 000 dollars The increased raise was six hundred thousand dollars so it gives us two hundred thousand dollars extra so so there's an eight hundred thousand dollar total it might be a little bit higher but but already spoken for the proposed raises to all the staff members is uh six hundred thousand dollars so about a two hundred thousand thousand dollar extra I'll talk about a couple other things then we'll come back to that that piece um they also went ahead and increased District additional assistance which is basically Capital items in that particular situation they don't apply inflation to it but inflation would have been 10 million dollars Statewide had they put it to the inflation number they actually gave 20 million dollars so it's a little over four percent increase uh to your to your numbers that will go into our daa which are capital items and so we would anticipate approximately an initial 200 000 there also and so now we start to have a conversation about what needs to be done and not done the bigger one that was out there was that um they gave us a one-time funding only for districts of 300 million dollars um again that could be somewhere between 800 000 and a million for us but it's one-time money so you wouldn't automatically put it into salaries because you can't cover the salaries the next year with the money so we will have to sit down and talk about our initial anticipation is to be a little bit cautious with it primarily because we don't know what our numbers are going to be next in July and if we're down numbers again uh not spending some of that money will help us absorb the cost the loss of ADM if we're flat or increasing in numbers then we can have discussions now over the summer we'll be talking about possible options but we're probably going to go just a little bit conservative because it's so much of one-time money and we don't want to commit ourselves to something if we're in effect going to have to turn around and make some budgetary Cuts with it and the other thing that was done that's a positive is they did pass a one-year fix on the AL therefore we're not going to go through the drama that we've had the last two years about whether they're going to pass it or not they're by Statute allowed in the budget to go ahead and pass it for the next year that just gives us the authority to spend the money that they just allocated and we don't have to play the game of are they going to come back later in the year and actually make this vote they they made this budget contingent on the AL being passed so we can get more details I shared some stuff and if you have a quick question I can answer but I just wanted to kind of give you an idea because that's breaking as we speak the house just got done probably about three o'clock this afternoon that million dollars that we were allocated for a one-time fund is that it have to be spent in a certain amount of time is it like what do what what is it we're not sure in terms of time it can be allocated to either m o or Capital items um I'm assuming that that if you don't spend it you can carry it because there's an unlimited carryover so I believe we'll be able to do that but um the devil will be in the details uh it will be money that will be allocated through Arizona Department of Ed so until we actually see what it says we have an idea of the way they're going to distribute it and what's the calculation going to be but we don't have all the particulars that say actually this is what you can or can't do with it so once we get that we'll be able to make a better determination what to do with it okay okay a couple other things we have going on a lot of things happening this time of year didn't want to make you aware of this personalized admissions pilot that we're working with ASU Arizona Department Ed and the Helios Education Foundation they have a program where they go ahead and take a look in in June they come to the districts and they ask them for their information on the upcoming seniors and they take a look at the seniors transcripts we have to report that information to Ade anyways to the relationship with Helios is basically they take a look at it and it was designed to get into districts at maybe had kids that were not thinking that they were college-bound and so they worked out a relationship with ASU where they would actually based on what they're seeing within the kids transcript release a letter to the kid in September saying you've been accepted to the college the kid has to still follow through on some particulars like making sure you pass out your classes during the school year but it was designed to set those kids that maybe didn't think they could go to college to put them on that path so if they needed to look at financial aid or some of those kind of things they'd start to do it it's been so successful they're expanding it out and so we asked to be part of that program we will be getting more information in the future but it's just an opportunity it's now been expanded Beyond ASU to NAU and U of A and then there is some discussion of potential future expansion to our community colleges so it's just a way to let kids know or families know that maybe they were not aware that they might be able to be successful in college to go to college and if you get it to them in September then they know their senior year that maybe they can start to do the things they need to do to get scholarships or or get financial aid and those kind of things so there will be more information coming but at least want to make you aware of that in terms of student enrollment the pattern stays the same as it has all year long and it don't anticipate it'll change so we're still down a little bit from last year about 200 250 students uh again we can't we receive recognition for major Clarity that's part of the College and Career Readiness Platinum power uses status meaning we're typically top uh 10 percent uh our of our students are using it we have it fourth through 12th grade in the district um and major Clarity becomes important if you don't remember that they've been bought out by paper and so we have been working with both major Clarity and paper uh to go ahead and do some things with learner profiles to help our students and take some of the workload off our teachers in terms of getting kids ready for for post-secondary uh start them early in in third and fourth grade to at least give them the exploration and then move on up through the junior high and the high school and so uh our our staff is doing a great job to get our kids to to go ahead and use major Clarity but there'll be some additional benefits on down the road that we're still meeting with major Clarity and paper to figure out what this learner profile looks like so this is a positive a lot of Kudos go to John scroghem he's kind of spearheaded it and got out and done the training with uh with the elementaries this year because we'd already put it into middle school and high school so just overall a very good program see we also had some success for the Pinal County Community Advisory Board character accounts essays so we had two students three students excuse me at Harmon Place William Hill on K-2 first place and then third through fifth honorable mention for Nevada Sanchez six through eight third place for Estelle Mercedes and then at CMS we had first place in sixth through eighth grade for Caitlin Andrew and so they will be at a presentation here and next week the winners will get a read there essays so uh just a good another example of our kids doing well not only in the on the field but in the classroom we also want to thank I know I believe it was Simonton and ranch with Central Christian Church came out on the weekend of the 22nd to help fix up the schools and clean things up I know that the two principals were very very appreciate initiative of all the individuals that came out I believe the church came out to lots of different schools to help out so it's just a positive partnership by the school and with the district so we're appreciative of what they've done CMS is having success in their sports teams are making it to finals now this was I can't remember when Mrs Ridge gave it to me but I believe in the last week week and a half so they haven't very much success down there also there was uh going back to paper National math competition for using paper and some review of math especially as we move into testing season and CMS uh did an outstanding job to get 10 different spots from the paper competition so uh just a a good use of a resource that as more and more families get to understand it is an area that can help with homework and and do well and then they're also looking at their upcoming Washington DC trip uh when we get to the high school lots and lots happening on with the high school I'm not going to read every single one but the Esports team made it the state playoffs so some people may not be aware of Esports but that's gaining in popularity and we do have at the high school a couple different teams there and so uh both the varsity and junior varsity team I believe it's their year and a half chance time working with us I don't think they've had two full years but so it's it's been very very successful Fine Arts the jazz band had a successful State jazz festival you see the highest honors for outstanding soloists for Alex Nathan Stanton Sasser and again the Jazz combo red also was very successful combs in indoor percussion or in third place in the Arizona division which moves them up next year to a higher level the high school band earned a superior rating at the state festivals again more success for those students we had in CTE early childhood education program these students passed the national parapro Praxis certification what that means for those of you that may not know is that these kids could now get a job as a parapro in any school district in the state so it is an opportunity even though I believe four of the six are Juniors so they could we could employ them as parapros in our classrooms if we wanted to in sports the girls a senior tennis team I had two students Kenley Nichols and Emma Ricks make it to State and in track this past weekend it's a little bit different they had a divisional meet with a combined state meet this upcoming week Hunter Claire uh was first place 300 intermediate hurdles so division champ and then he will also compete in the 110 hurdles and Mr beech's son Mack will be competing in the 400 uh he placed there so the kids uh did an outstanding job relative to track and then for a couple upcoming events tomorrow night we've switched Mrs Loftus has switched the CHS academic night before it used to be on a Friday in the gym and they switched the night event so that's tomorrow night at seven if if you can make it and then we're getting down to that time of year with our activities the CCS graduation the center for Success graduation is Tuesday the 23rd 6 30 and then CHS graduation is Wednesday the 24th at seven o'clock and so invite you to both of those activities if if you can make it then the next thing we would like to do is best part of the day and we'll ask these people to come up yeah and so we try to recognize different employee groups different employee groups as they have National day week month it just depends on on the employee group and and what's happening in the um with the celebration we have right there so first we'd like to it's actually National School nurses day today um and so we would like to call up uh we'll call some uh our nurses up and then we'll I will read a little something about them so we would like to call up as a district nurse Wendy Cabanas not sure if they're all here uh Carolyn Iker from Combs High School Holly blazer from Harman Jessica Moffett as a district nurse and Krista Claypool as a district nurse oh um and so with the district uh or within school nurse day um the first school nurse was actually uh employed on October 1st 1902.

that'll be hard I know that in a bond is easier to raise money just because those Builders have a vested interest right and an mno it's not as easy right so I yeah no but I can get you that number I'll make some calls and I'll share that information do you want do you wanna do you want this on the board agenda for June with those numbers and yeah I mean I think we should Vote or what or decide make a decision then well I I wouldn't want to make a decision without real numbers in front of me but I think it would be important to look at it and I would say that even if we don't pass it for this one we could we would know you know hey this is what it's going to be and if we wanted to really prepare for 2024 I think that'd be helpful okay so I think yeah you know I I would just like to see that okay Jason I'm just thinking of the amount of time to educate the voters let me mention that is a 20 2023 enough time for us to educate the people that we relying on to pass it we had two months we have two months it doesn't seem like enough time to I mean if they don't if they're not educated then right how can we be hopeful that it would pass versus right we'd have a better chance of passing if we beat the pavement and had a chance to talk to people and and the actual people that lived in the district were excited about the bond or the which whichever direction we're going and then I mean I think if there was I think at the next board meeting if we had numbers and and like a plan of like how it could work within two months I mean I I would it does seem quick um but in all reality it only takes one person I mean you just need to talk about it once right like to somebody and they know I I just I'd like to see the plan of action and if it's plausible okay what do you think yeah I would like to you know certainly see it I think as far as letting people know it is a short timeline but I would say I think there's enough time but is that where social media can be maybe a asset to us and yeah it'd be social media between June just getting the posters the Billboards out like that takes a long time too like to get them printed and get them put up and you have to pay somebody to put them up you have to you you have to meet somebody in a parking lot to pick them up and so anyway um yeah I would like I I'm I'm not opposed to it I would like to see that yeah your timeline what we think how we how how how you can make it work within those those parameters I'm not opposed to it but I don't want to do it halfway right either and then us fail right because you're right then if it fails once the next time is more than likely going to fail to right so well let me let me do some work on it and come back um depending on what we find out there may be some things that I come back and tell you that that here's you know here's the information but I'm going to make the recommendation that we not go out for it or not so not even put it on the agenda but let me do let me find a few numbers I just want to get a feel for the board because I'm not going to do all this if you guys are saying like 23s way way too short let's do 24 and then then it's a different plan if 24 is out there then it's a different planet if it's 23 and so so but let me work together with the plan I'll talk to some of the people I know that have worked on these numbers and a few things like that and then I'll bring something back in June we'll see exactly what it is based on what I find out I'm not I'm not a hard no so right okay yeah no that's and that's why this discussion is to see and it's really just coming up as a result of the budget and some of the concerns and issues out of the budget so so it's not a problem okay okay all right so we'll take our recess about a 10 minute break yeah okay thank you a regular session at six o'clock um so I need approval we're going to have to do these oh well fine we'll do the pledge now are you guys ready okay so we're gonna need to do these um separately so I need approval for the meeting minutes for our special board meeting March 29 2023.

her name was Linda Richards she was employed to prevent absenteeism by Consulting with kids and families regarding health care that led to the adoption of evidence-based nursing practice in the New York City schools and from that uh it has grown and and truly what you have with uh Nurses Day is really a thank you to some people there are any number of kids that these are a Lifeline for them every single day there are kids that need that Connecting Point or may have health issues where they have to come into the nurse every single day for help in some cases you have nurses that are doing feeding for kids that are tube fed you have cases where nurses are given dispensing medication every single day for kids that need it and so they just provide a valuable valuable service they're there if somebody happens to get hurt on our campuses and so we can't thank them enough for all they do for all of our kids so thank you so very much [Applause] on uh Friday last Friday was the 11th annual uh school lunch hero day so we want to recognize some of our the individuals from our Nutrition department and then I'll say a few words about them from CMS Rocky Stevens from the high school Martha meloda from Harman Victoria Garcia from Ellsworth Michaela favor from Simonton Kerry Ian color [Applause] from CTA Jan tisnatto [Applause] from Ranch Maxima Flores and from the district darcene kishba again this is another group of individuals that do an amazing job every single day and for some many of our kids not only in our district but across the country this is the only meals they get every single day breakfast and lunch and so the cafeteria and the job that these people do for some of our kids is is quite frankly life-saving it gives them a warm meal twice a day and they do it with love for kids go out of the way to make a difference I know there's lots of comments about school lunch but I've eaten in a lot of districts and let me tell you what the food is good food and the kids appreciate it and again it's just one more way for all the quiet people behind the scenes that make a tremendous difference in our district every single day making a positive difference and so we thank you so very much for all that you do for our kids it is very well I very much appreciated for all all of you so thank you I like the shirts good job on the shirts now the last group we have this is uh there's two parts to it it's actually um the month of May and first week is Teacher Appreciation week but there's also Teacher Appreciation Day usually the two fall within the same week but this year just goes away the calendar Falls actually teach appreciation day it was last week and the teacher appreciation week is this week we have recognized our teachers to several different ways including with our staff excellence awards and a number of others but what we wanted to do was something a little special for them this week and this is just a a short video we're going to play for any second but it's a way for um students and parents to just truly say thank you and we did this for all of our teachers and we ended up gonna make sure I got all the right data we ended up having 100 264 different submissions from parents and students that celebrated 109 different teachers across our site we'll show you we uh I think there's a proud mom up here but someone's daughter Sarah Hargis helped us with this and it was to make a little video from each of our schools that is the notes that were written to the teachers by the parents and or the kids and although this is I think a two two three minute video we actually have a video for every single one of our schools because we had enough recognition from all of our schools that we're able to do recognition for each of the schools it's on our website and then we also are going to take each of the slides and the pictures of what the kids or parents wrote to the teachers and we will give each of the teachers a copy of what was written and it's it's again it's that little special thought that says thank you for what you do you make a positive difference in my life and this is how you make a positive difference in your life so we like to show this video and then go from there foreign [Applause] sometimes a written note from a parent or a child goes far great far farther than anything else she can do for anyone and that's why we moved with this um plan this year and thanks to Kayla for her work in coming up with the idea and a way just to thank all of our teachers for the job they they do again many times they don't hear the thanks but this is something they can take with them no matter how long they teach no matter where they teach and so it has been shared on social media we'll continue to be shared and it's just our way to say thank you to all of our teachers during teacher appreciation what's that so the next group and when we need and we also have Mr Dr de blissis can you help Mr Beach we got little things to give them this time of year we also have an opportunity to recognize those individuals that have decided to retire and I'll call them up and then say a couple words about them but we do have some individuals that have been with us that are retiring this is the amount of time they've been with us in some of these cases like the very first individual the career is a 40-year career just so happens they've only worked for us for six years so in many cases they're they're much longer than what's going to be read here but with six years in the district Dr Sherry Dukes [Applause] you can stay up here we'll get a picture yeah with seven years in the district Dorsey Meadow [Applause] with eight years in the district Stephen Jackson nope and also with eight years Allison Jackson bus drivers for us with eight years in the district Gail Brimley [Applause] and the one that's been here the longest was 17 years in District Mr Aaron Irwin and truly um this is just a small token for us to say thank you uh and like I say many of those people have been working for much longer than what we have here in our district but in every single case they've made a positive difference in the lives of children their entire life this is a calling they say the windows to the eyes of the solar and the heart and when you look in the heart of a teacher you just see one big huge heart that makes sure that there's a difference in the life of a kid and that's what they've done throughout their career and so although they're moving on to other endeavors truly we're not in we're indebted not only for what you've done for our kids but what you've done for kids throughout your entire career you've passed on a legacy and you've given a love of learning for those kids that not everybody can do it there's an art to teaching there's a lot of people to think they can teach and then those that know they can teach you can teach and you made a tremendous difference in the lives of kids and so truly from the bottom of my heart I've been doing this for 38 years I'm lucky enough that I get to work with people like you every single year so thank you for all you've done and the difference you made in the lives of kids you're a tremendous group of people thank you we're now on to uh students of the month yep you have to do this too there we go Madam president board members Dr Wyman and of course all of our guests good to see you all it's always my pleasure to introduce our student of the month could I have Tila Blanche come up from the high school is Tila here how about Cara Driggs from coma Center for success [Applause] you could you could stand there that's fine I'm going to say a few words about you okay and people might take pictures so you can smile there there you go our final uh our finalist or uh student of the month at CCs is Cara and Cara participates as an active student at ccs she Volunteers in the classroom at CTA and is one of the artists of our senior mural Cara has worked hard to complete courses and has good grades in academic integrity she's active in the community with her church and this well-rounded young woman represents the best of our young people congratulations Kara thank you could I have Aiden Deshawn come up from Combs Middle School Aiden come on over here by the podium there you go Aiden's been one of the hardest working students all year and he's shown true self-motivation to succeed and does not let challenges impede his successes he's a very kind young man who consistently shows respect to his teachers and more importantly to his peers Aiden is the first to ask if there is anything that needs help anyone that needs help and strives to help others Aiden has been a positive influence all the years on the middle school campus and we know that he will continue in a bright future we are all extremely proud of who this young man has become that was written by Mr Wooten congratulations young man I'll pass that along to him could I have Camilla Suarez come up from CTA Camilla come on over here there you go we'll get we'll get the trend going come on over here yeah yeah and then you turn around smile at everybody there you go look at that Camilla is a student who demonstrates citizenship throughout her day on campus she is thoughtful to others works with students to help solve issues and concerns and promotes a positive attitude on campus she truly wants our community to be the best Camilla has been a leader on campus to welcome new students she's honest and trustworthy and her words and actions towards others are commendable congratulations Camilla good job could I have Isabella or Bond come up from Harman [Applause] Isabella loves to share with her friends and helps them feel welcome in class she's a leader during music class where she helps encourage her fellow classmates to participate Isabella brings smiles to everyone Isabelle loves school and is always always walks into class with a smile on her face Isabella loves to joke around and say she is coming to class on the weekends or during the school holidays congratulations Isabella on being selected harman's student of the month [Applause] could I have Arya fatigati come up from Ellsworth there she is we practiced earlier yes Aria is a wonderful example of a good classroom citizen she's kind and a friendly student she follows the rules and takes responsibilities for her actions she cooperates with her peers and her teachers and she is quick to find a friend in need she is a positive attitude every day at school congratulations [Applause] could I have Isabella Rodriguez come up from Simonton [Applause] and finally Ben splits Tozer from Ranch here's Ben [Applause] there he is Yay good job congratulations Ben Ben has been a a Kinder prep classroom all year long and Ben is a great member of the classroom Community he's an excellent role model for his fellow students and follows directions and is a good friend and helps others when possible congratulations Ben [Applause] that's our student of the months at this time we'll take a little break for pictures and then if anyone wants to leave they can we'll continue with the board meeting thank you [Music] I did I did and I [Music] am okay I'm gonna go we're gonna go ahead and get started with the rest of our agenda uh we do have governing board um uh remarks if anybody has any does anybody have anything for governing board remarks um I would just like to say that we did Bob and I did go to the staff Excellence award um it was very nice I think that um it's it'll be great going Bill be pretty well attended in the future too uh but yeah it was it was a pretty nice evening so you guys should come um okay do we have any public comments no we do not so um in the consent agenda I'm gonna pull um an 8.12 I'm gonna pull um one two and three out because those are 9.1 9.2 and 9.3 so okay so um you're going to go ahead and make that motion Mr Ray yeah so I moved to approve um the consent agenda as presented pulling items one two and three as they are also on 9.19.2 and 9.3 right okay all right all in favor aye aye motion carries three to zero so there we go um we'll go to 9.1 then okay um as we just got done uh recognizing Dr Dukes for her upcoming retirement so we're in the phase of now doing a replacement so there was a process to take place in in the district um in terms of uh posting for the position the district received 15 applicants and then six individuals were selected for first round interviews interviews one of those uh was internal and five were external and there was the committee's uh in the back in the backup there was interviews conducted and then the second round of interviews with three finalists and we are proud to present to you as the new uh director of student services Miss Jennifer Corey so if Jennifer wants to come up and say a few words she's more than welcome to come up and just say a few words introduce yourself [Applause] good evening nice to meet you um I just want to say thank you this is a tremendous opportunity and um I'm really honored I can never fill the shoes of Sherry and I know that um but what I do pledge is that I will come and serve the students and the staff and the community and continue her mission in the foundation and the structure that she has set into place and I'm just very honored thank you thank you yeah we did get on backwards but it's okay okay so I'm gonna make a motion right you want to want them I moved to approve Mr Jennifer Corey has a new directors director of student services as presented a second all right I 9.2 discussion and consideration or approval of the new coordinator of teaching and learning um Dr Wyman do you have anything to add we will have Dr Fountain come up and make a quick introduction first I moved to approved NCD app Scott as a new coordinator of teaching and learning as presented okay all in favor aye aye motion carries 3-0 Dr fountain come on up we'll keep it short and sweet but first of all thanks for uh approving this hire we did go through an extensive process in searching for this position and I just want to remind the board and the community that as was as was previously discussed when we were proposing this position one of Nancy's biggest roles will be supporting teachers who are new to education and new to jio Combs we really feel like that's an area that we could use that additional support for and so that's going to be a huge Focus for her and she has a great background in K-12 education throughout the East Valley and I know it's just going to be a great asset to our district so I guess we'll follow the same procedure and let her come up and say hello [Applause] he's much taller than I am Madam president members of the board Dr Wyman in the community I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and honor and it is an honor to be given this opportunity to work with this amazing team as someone who's deeply passionate about education and its transformative power I'm thrilled to be able to serve the community in this role and I'm eager to bring my skills experience and enthusiasm to this position thank you so much thank you thank you [Applause] 0.3 discussion consideration of approval of the new coordinator in professional development so um Stephen you want to make a motion I move to approve Christine Murphy as new coordinator of professional development as presented my second all in favor hi hi motion carries through to zero Dr Wyman turn it back over to Dr fountain all right one more time I'll go Nancy height um so thank you for approving this position as well um this position is directly related to much like the very first one on Arjun today uh to dorsey's retirement um also very big shoes to fill but when we went through the process and I think the statistics are up there but we had somewhere in the ballpark between these two positions of right around 35 to 38 applicants total we did multiple rounds of interviews sorting through those so it was quite an extensive process um some really exciting interests in our in our school district and our community um through that process for this position Miss Murphy Rose to the top is a really nice balance of understanding the work that was done and having a solid vision for what the future may look like and reimagining some of those pieces and so we're glad to have her in this position and remaining with our team in this role Miss Murphy [Applause] I like the hustle I don't want to don't want to delay um so I'm glad someone else brought their phone because I was like how do I do this so Madam president Dr Wyman members of the board thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight uh Dorsey has led our team and it's an honor to be here today my goal in the coming year is to continue the important work of student-centered learning with a focus on rigor in the classroom in the classroom sorry pardon me our team is already working on opportunities for teachers to collaborate and plan for rigorous learning throughout the year at each of our professional learning opportunities and I look forward to working with our leadership team thank you thank you [Applause] okay 9.4 discussion consideration of the adoption of the 2223 annual expenditure budget revision number two Madam president members of the board Dr Wyman and remaining members of the audience action item 9.4 presents the revision number two of the annual expenditure budget for physical year 2023 Arizona revised Statute 15 904 requires the district to submit their final budget revisions for approval no later than May 15th and we must post it to the superintendent of Public Instruction by May 18th that's why we're here tonight revision number two reflects a decrease in our ADM of another 37.5567 students however we finally were given the revenue for our group we B weighed-ons for gifted and frpl which is the free and reduced priced lunches the total change to this revision increased our Revenue control limit by 146 680 which is going to give us a total mno budget for the fiscal year 2023 of 30 million 785 109 dollars page one of the m o budget contains or I should say page one of eight reflects the m o budget and it contains most of the changes that were made there were minor changes that occurred throughout the budget workbook updates to the various subsections in the workbook were made to align with what our FY 23 projected expenditures are however we should note that not all the changes were Financial you'll notice that on page two our district contact page has been reflected to add our newest governing board member Mr Jason Beach so he can sign tonight this final revision to the FY 23 extended your budget and will be reflective until the encumberance period fin finishes around the end of August as per ARS 15905g this is that language you love so much governing board policy dbj and governing board approval on July 13 2022.

I moved to approve the board meeting minutes for the special board meeting as presented a second all in favor aye three to zero I'll make I need a motion for uh approval of meeting minutes regular boarding meeting March 1st 2023. I moved to abort to approve the minutes for the March 1st regular board meeting minutes second all in favor aye aye aye carries um I'll need a motion for approval of minutes regular board meeting April 12 2023. I moved to approve the board meeting minutes for the April 12th regular board meeting a second all right motion carries three to zero so we have current events um so a superintendent report thank you madam president a couple different things and actually one's not up there but I'll bring you up to speed today the state budget was passed out of the house last night was passed out of the Senate 17.9 billion dollar budget I believe is what the what the number is although there's a lot of conversation about esas and capping esas which are vouchers for students to go ahead and go to private schools or home school there was no cap on the esa's the votes weren't there it's actually very simple math down at the legislature if you have 31 and you have 16 you win if you have less than 31 you have less than 16 you're not winning and that's just the way it is right now there's 31 Republicans and 16 Republicans in the house in the Senate therefore they're in favor of vouchers and so there wasn't going to be a lot of action on the voucher despite some of the rhetoric you may see in the papers but overall the budget still came out pretty good for us on a normal year we would have gotten a two percent increased tour and that's what we built the budget so the the budget recommendations we gave you at the last board meeting was based on the two percent increase to uh to our mno and actually by the time everything got said and done it's actually 2.93 percent depending on how you calculate it and we won't know the process will be they will transfer it to the governor tomorrow and then she'll have however many days it's I think it's five days to sign she'll sign you know right away because it's a bipartisan budget then Ade will get us out the forms for next year's budget that we have to have adopted by you guys by early July and so when we get those forms we'll know the numbers for sure but we would anticipate that the addition uh the addition of the of some of those dollars uh could be in there in the range of an additional eight hundred thousand dollars so is that for salaries it's Ramin oh it can go for salaries now it covers I'll talk about what we plan to do with it but it covers we we know that the increased raise or the total cost is 800 000 dollars The increased raise was six hundred thousand dollars so it gives us two hundred thousand dollars extra so so there's an eight hundred thousand dollar total it might be a little bit higher but but already spoken for the proposed raises to all the staff members is uh six hundred thousand dollars so about a two hundred thousand thousand dollar extra I'll talk about a couple other things then we'll come back to that that piece um they also went ahead and increased District additional assistance which is basically Capital items in that particular situation they don't apply inflation to it but inflation would have been 10 million dollars Statewide had they put it to the inflation number they actually gave 20 million dollars so it's a little over four percent increase uh to your to your numbers that will go into our daa which are capital items and so we would anticipate approximately an initial 200 000 there also and so now we start to have a conversation about what needs to be done and not done the bigger one that was out there was that um they gave us a one-time funding only for districts of 300 million dollars um again that could be somewhere between 800 000 and a million for us but it's one-time money so you wouldn't automatically put it into salaries because you can't cover the salaries the next year with the money so we will have to sit down and talk about our initial anticipation is to be a little bit cautious with it primarily because we don't know what our numbers are going to be next in July and if we're down numbers again uh not spending some of that money will help us absorb the cost the loss of ADM if we're flat or increasing in numbers then we can have discussions now over the summer we'll be talking about possible options but we're probably going to go just a little bit conservative because it's so much of one-time money and we don't want to commit ourselves to something if we're in effect going to have to turn around and make some budgetary Cuts with it and the other thing that was done that's a positive is they did pass a one-year fix on the AL therefore we're not going to go through the drama that we've had the last two years about whether they're going to pass it or not they're by Statute allowed in the budget to go ahead and pass it for the next year that just gives us the authority to spend the money that they just allocated and we don't have to play the game of are they going to come back later in the year and actually make this vote they they made this budget contingent on the AL being passed so we can get more details I shared some stuff and if you have a quick question I can answer but I just wanted to kind of give you an idea because that's breaking as we speak the house just got done probably about three o'clock this afternoon that million dollars that we were allocated for a one-time fund is that it have to be spent in a certain amount of time is it like what do what what is it we're not sure in terms of time it can be allocated to either m o or Capital items um I'm assuming that that if you don't spend it you can carry it because there's an unlimited carryover so I believe we'll be able to do that but um the devil will be in the details uh it will be money that will be allocated through Arizona Department of Ed so until we actually see what it says we have an idea of the way they're going to distribute it and what's the calculation going to be but we don't have all the particulars that say actually this is what you can or can't do with it so once we get that we'll be able to make a better determination what to do with it okay okay a couple other things we have going on a lot of things happening this time of year didn't want to make you aware of this personalized admissions pilot that we're working with ASU Arizona Department Ed and the Helios Education Foundation they have a program where they go ahead and take a look in in June they come to the districts and they ask them for their information on the upcoming seniors and they take a look at the seniors transcripts we have to report that information to Ade anyways to the relationship with Helios is basically they take a look at it and it was designed to get into districts at maybe had kids that were not thinking that they were college-bound and so they worked out a relationship with ASU where they would actually based on what they're seeing within the kids transcript release a letter to the kid in September saying you've been accepted to the college the kid has to still follow through on some particulars like making sure you pass out your classes during the school year but it was designed to set those kids that maybe didn't think they could go to college to put them on that path so if they needed to look at financial aid or some of those kind of things they'd start to do it it's been so successful they're expanding it out and so we asked to be part of that program we will be getting more information in the future but it's just an opportunity it's now been expanded Beyond ASU to NAU and U of A and then there is some discussion of potential future expansion to our community colleges so it's just a way to let kids know or families know that maybe they were not aware that they might be able to be successful in college to go to college and if you get it to them in September then they know their senior year that maybe they can start to do the things they need to do to get scholarships or or get financial aid and those kind of things so there will be more information coming but at least want to make you aware of that in terms of student enrollment the pattern stays the same as it has all year long and it don't anticipate it'll change so we're still down a little bit from last year about 200 250 students uh again we can't we receive recognition for major Clarity that's part of the College and Career Readiness Platinum power uses status meaning we're typically top uh 10 percent uh our of our students are using it we have it fourth through 12th grade in the district um and major Clarity becomes important if you don't remember that they've been bought out by paper and so we have been working with both major Clarity and paper uh to go ahead and do some things with learner profiles to help our students and take some of the workload off our teachers in terms of getting kids ready for for post-secondary uh start them early in in third and fourth grade to at least give them the exploration and then move on up through the junior high and the high school and so uh our our staff is doing a great job to get our kids to to go ahead and use major Clarity but there'll be some additional benefits on down the road that we're still meeting with major Clarity and paper to figure out what this learner profile looks like so this is a positive a lot of Kudos go to John scroghem he's kind of spearheaded it and got out and done the training with uh with the elementaries this year because we'd already put it into middle school and high school so just overall a very good program see we also had some success for the Pinal County Community Advisory Board character accounts essays so we had two students three students excuse me at Harmon Place William Hill on K-2 first place and then third through fifth honorable mention for Nevada Sanchez six through eight third place for Estelle Mercedes and then at CMS we had first place in sixth through eighth grade for Caitlin Andrew and so they will be at a presentation here and next week the winners will get a read there essays so uh just a good another example of our kids doing well not only in the on the field but in the classroom we also want to thank I know I believe it was Simonton and ranch with Central Christian Church came out on the weekend of the 22nd to help fix up the schools and clean things up I know that the two principals were very very appreciate initiative of all the individuals that came out I believe the church came out to lots of different schools to help out so it's just a positive partnership by the school and with the district so we're appreciative of what they've done CMS is having success in their sports teams are making it to finals now this was I can't remember when Mrs Ridge gave it to me but I believe in the last week week and a half so they haven't very much success down there also there was uh going back to paper National math competition for using paper and some review of math especially as we move into testing season and CMS uh did an outstanding job to get 10 different spots from the paper competition so uh just a a good use of a resource that as more and more families get to understand it is an area that can help with homework and and do well and then they're also looking at their upcoming Washington DC trip uh when we get to the high school lots and lots happening on with the high school I'm not going to read every single one but the Esports team made it the state playoffs so some people may not be aware of Esports but that's gaining in popularity and we do have at the high school a couple different teams there and so uh both the varsity and junior varsity team I believe it's their year and a half chance time working with us I don't think they've had two full years but so it's it's been very very successful Fine Arts the jazz band had a successful State jazz festival you see the highest honors for outstanding soloists for Alex Nathan Stanton Sasser and again the Jazz combo red also was very successful combs in indoor percussion or in third place in the Arizona division which moves them up next year to a higher level the high school band earned a superior rating at the state festivals again more success for those students we had in CTE early childhood education program these students passed the national parapro Praxis certification what that means for those of you that may not know is that these kids could now get a job as a parapro in any school district in the state so it is an opportunity even though I believe four of the six are Juniors so they could we could employ them as parapros in our classrooms if we wanted to in sports the girls a senior tennis team I had two students Kenley Nichols and Emma Ricks make it to State and in track this past weekend it's a little bit different they had a divisional meet with a combined state meet this upcoming week Hunter Claire uh was first place 300 intermediate hurdles so division champ and then he will also compete in the 110 hurdles and Mr beech's son Mack will be competing in the 400 uh he placed there so the kids uh did an outstanding job relative to track and then for a couple upcoming events tomorrow night we've switched Mrs Loftus has switched the CHS academic night before it used to be on a Friday in the gym and they switched the night event so that's tomorrow night at seven if if you can make it and then we're getting down to that time of year with our activities the CCS graduation the center for Success graduation is Tuesday the 23rd 6 30 and then CHS graduation is Wednesday the 24th at seven o'clock and so invite you to both of those activities if if you can make it then the next thing we would like to do is best part of the day and we'll ask these people to come up yeah and so we try to recognize different employee groups different employee groups as they have National day week month it just depends on on the employee group and and what's happening in the um with the celebration we have right there so first we'd like to it's actually National School nurses day today um and so we would like to call up uh we'll call some uh our nurses up and then we'll I will read a little something about them so we would like to call up as a district nurse Wendy Cabanas not sure if they're all here uh Carolyn Iker from Combs High School Holly blazer from Harman Jessica Moffett as a district nurse and Krista Claypool as a district nurse oh um and so with the district uh or within school nurse day um the first school nurse was actually uh employed on October 1st 1902.

this revision is subject to the authorization of the expenditures of money budgeted within the mno sections of the budget for any subsection within the sections in excess of amounts specific in the budget however the total expenditures of the mno budget will not exceed the total budgeted amount for the physical year 2023.

her name was Linda Richards she was employed to prevent absenteeism by Consulting with kids and families regarding health care that led to the adoption of evidence-based nursing practice in the New York City schools and from that uh it has grown and and truly what you have with uh Nurses Day is really a thank you to some people there are any number of kids that these are a Lifeline for them every single day there are kids that need that Connecting Point or may have health issues where they have to come into the nurse every single day for help in some cases you have nurses that are doing feeding for kids that are tube fed you have cases where nurses are given dispensing medication every single day for kids that need it and so they just provide a valuable valuable service they're there if somebody happens to get hurt on our campuses and so we can't thank them enough for all they do for all of our kids so thank you so very much [Applause] on uh Friday last Friday was the 11th annual uh school lunch hero day so we want to recognize some of our the individuals from our Nutrition department and then I'll say a few words about them from CMS Rocky Stevens from the high school Martha meloda from Harman Victoria Garcia from Ellsworth Michaela favor from Simonton Kerry Ian color [Applause] from CTA Jan tisnatto [Applause] from Ranch Maxima Flores and from the district darcene kishba again this is another group of individuals that do an amazing job every single day and for some many of our kids not only in our district but across the country this is the only meals they get every single day breakfast and lunch and so the cafeteria and the job that these people do for some of our kids is is quite frankly life-saving it gives them a warm meal twice a day and they do it with love for kids go out of the way to make a difference I know there's lots of comments about school lunch but I've eaten in a lot of districts and let me tell you what the food is good food and the kids appreciate it and again it's just one more way for all the quiet people behind the scenes that make a tremendous difference in our district every single day making a positive difference and so we thank you so very much for all that you do for our kids it is very well I very much appreciated for all all of you so thank you I like the shirts good job on the shirts now the last group we have this is uh there's two parts to it it's actually um the month of May and first week is Teacher Appreciation week but there's also Teacher Appreciation Day usually the two fall within the same week but this year just goes away the calendar Falls actually teach appreciation day it was last week and the teacher appreciation week is this week we have recognized our teachers to several different ways including with our staff excellence awards and a number of others but what we wanted to do was something a little special for them this week and this is just a a short video we're going to play for any second but it's a way for um students and parents to just truly say thank you and we did this for all of our teachers and we ended up gonna make sure I got all the right data we ended up having 100 264 different submissions from parents and students that celebrated 109 different teachers across our site we'll show you we uh I think there's a proud mom up here but someone's daughter Sarah Hargis helped us with this and it was to make a little video from each of our schools that is the notes that were written to the teachers by the parents and or the kids and although this is I think a two two three minute video we actually have a video for every single one of our schools because we had enough recognition from all of our schools that we're able to do recognition for each of the schools it's on our website and then we also are going to take each of the slides and the pictures of what the kids or parents wrote to the teachers and we will give each of the teachers a copy of what was written and it's it's again it's that little special thought that says thank you for what you do you make a positive difference in my life and this is how you make a positive difference in your life so we like to show this video and then go from there foreign [Applause] sometimes a written note from a parent or a child goes far great far farther than anything else she can do for anyone and that's why we moved with this um plan this year and thanks to Kayla for her work in coming up with the idea and a way just to thank all of our teachers for the job they they do again many times they don't hear the thanks but this is something they can take with them no matter how long they teach no matter where they teach and so it has been shared on social media we'll continue to be shared and it's just our way to say thank you to all of our teachers during teacher appreciation what's that so the next group and when we need and we also have Mr Dr de blissis can you help Mr Beach we got little things to give them this time of year we also have an opportunity to recognize those individuals that have decided to retire and I'll call them up and then say a couple words about them but we do have some individuals that have been with us that are retiring this is the amount of time they've been with us in some of these cases like the very first individual the career is a 40-year career just so happens they've only worked for us for six years so in many cases they're they're much longer than what's going to be read here but with six years in the district Dr Sherry Dukes [Applause] you can stay up here we'll get a picture yeah with seven years in the district Dorsey Meadow [Applause] with eight years in the district Stephen Jackson nope and also with eight years Allison Jackson bus drivers for us with eight years in the district Gail Brimley [Applause] and the one that's been here the longest was 17 years in District Mr Aaron Irwin and truly um this is just a small token for us to say thank you uh and like I say many of those people have been working for much longer than what we have here in our district but in every single case they've made a positive difference in the lives of children their entire life this is a calling they say the windows to the eyes of the solar and the heart and when you look in the heart of a teacher you just see one big huge heart that makes sure that there's a difference in the life of a kid and that's what they've done throughout their career and so although they're moving on to other endeavors truly we're not in we're indebted not only for what you've done for our kids but what you've done for kids throughout your entire career you've passed on a legacy and you've given a love of learning for those kids that not everybody can do it there's an art to teaching there's a lot of people to think they can teach and then those that know they can teach you can teach and you made a tremendous difference in the lives of kids and so truly from the bottom of my heart I've been doing this for 38 years I'm lucky enough that I get to work with people like you every single year so thank you for all you've done and the difference you made in the lives of kids you're a tremendous group of people thank you we're now on to uh students of the month yep you have to do this too there we go Madam president board members Dr Wyman and of course all of our guests good to see you all it's always my pleasure to introduce our student of the month could I have Tila Blanche come up from the high school is Tila here how about Cara Driggs from coma Center for success [Applause] you could you could stand there that's fine I'm going to say a few words about you okay and people might take pictures so you can smile there there you go our final uh our finalist or uh student of the month at CCs is Cara and Cara participates as an active student at ccs she Volunteers in the classroom at CTA and is one of the artists of our senior mural Cara has worked hard to complete courses and has good grades in academic integrity she's active in the community with her church and this well-rounded young woman represents the best of our young people congratulations Kara thank you could I have Aiden Deshawn come up from Combs Middle School Aiden come on over here by the podium there you go Aiden's been one of the hardest working students all year and he's shown true self-motivation to succeed and does not let challenges impede his successes he's a very kind young man who consistently shows respect to his teachers and more importantly to his peers Aiden is the first to ask if there is anything that needs help anyone that needs help and strives to help others Aiden has been a positive influence all the years on the middle school campus and we know that he will continue in a bright future we are all extremely proud of who this young man has become that was written by Mr Wooten congratulations young man I'll pass that along to him could I have Camilla Suarez come up from CTA Camilla come on over here there you go we'll get we'll get the trend going come on over here yeah yeah and then you turn around smile at everybody there you go look at that Camilla is a student who demonstrates citizenship throughout her day on campus she is thoughtful to others works with students to help solve issues and concerns and promotes a positive attitude on campus she truly wants our community to be the best Camilla has been a leader on campus to welcome new students she's honest and trustworthy and her words and actions towards others are commendable congratulations Camilla good job could I have Isabella or Bond come up from Harman [Applause] Isabella loves to share with her friends and helps them feel welcome in class she's a leader during music class where she helps encourage her fellow classmates to participate Isabella brings smiles to everyone Isabelle loves school and is always always walks into class with a smile on her face Isabella loves to joke around and say she is coming to class on the weekends or during the school holidays congratulations Isabella on being selected harman's student of the month [Applause] could I have Arya fatigati come up from Ellsworth there she is we practiced earlier yes Aria is a wonderful example of a good classroom citizen she's kind and a friendly student she follows the rules and takes responsibilities for her actions she cooperates with her peers and her teachers and she is quick to find a friend in need she is a positive attitude every day at school congratulations [Applause] could I have Isabella Rodriguez come up from Simonton [Applause] and finally Ben splits Tozer from Ranch here's Ben [Applause] there he is Yay good job congratulations Ben Ben has been a a Kinder prep classroom all year long and Ben is a great member of the classroom Community he's an excellent role model for his fellow students and follows directions and is a good friend and helps others when possible congratulations Ben [Applause] that's our student of the months at this time we'll take a little break for pictures and then if anyone wants to leave they can we'll continue with the board meeting thank you [Music] I did I did and I [Music] am okay I'm gonna go we're gonna go ahead and get started with the rest of our agenda uh we do have governing board um uh remarks if anybody has any does anybody have anything for governing board remarks um I would just like to say that we did Bob and I did go to the staff Excellence award um it was very nice I think that um it's it'll be great going Bill be pretty well attended in the future too uh but yeah it was it was a pretty nice evening so you guys should come um okay do we have any public comments no we do not so um in the consent agenda I'm gonna pull um an 8.12 I'm gonna pull um one two and three out because those are 9.1 9.2 and 9.3 so okay so um you're going to go ahead and make that motion Mr Ray yeah so I moved to approve um the consent agenda as presented pulling items one two and three as they are also on 9.19.2 and 9.3 right okay all right all in favor aye aye motion carries three to zero so there we go um we'll go to 9.1 then okay um as we just got done uh recognizing Dr Dukes for her upcoming retirement so we're in the phase of now doing a replacement so there was a process to take place in in the district um in terms of uh posting for the position the district received 15 applicants and then six individuals were selected for first round interviews interviews one of those uh was internal and five were external and there was the committee's uh in the back in the backup there was interviews conducted and then the second round of interviews with three finalists and we are proud to present to you as the new uh director of student services Miss Jennifer Corey so if Jennifer wants to come up and say a few words she's more than welcome to come up and just say a few words introduce yourself [Applause] good evening nice to meet you um I just want to say thank you this is a tremendous opportunity and um I'm really honored I can never fill the shoes of Sherry and I know that um but what I do pledge is that I will come and serve the students and the staff and the community and continue her mission in the foundation and the structure that she has set into place and I'm just very honored thank you thank you yeah we did get on backwards but it's okay okay so I'm gonna make a motion right you want to want them I moved to approve Mr Jennifer Corey has a new directors director of student services as presented a second all right I 9.2 discussion and consideration or approval of the new coordinator of teaching and learning um Dr Wyman do you have anything to add we will have Dr Fountain come up and make a quick introduction first I moved to approved NCD app Scott as a new coordinator of teaching and learning as presented okay all in favor aye aye motion carries 3-0 Dr fountain come on up we'll keep it short and sweet but first of all thanks for uh approving this hire we did go through an extensive process in searching for this position and I just want to remind the board and the community that as was as was previously discussed when we were proposing this position one of Nancy's biggest roles will be supporting teachers who are new to education and new to jio Combs we really feel like that's an area that we could use that additional support for and so that's going to be a huge Focus for her and she has a great background in K-12 education throughout the East Valley and I know it's just going to be a great asset to our district so I guess we'll follow the same procedure and let her come up and say hello [Applause] he's much taller than I am Madam president members of the board Dr Wyman in the community I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and honor and it is an honor to be given this opportunity to work with this amazing team as someone who's deeply passionate about education and its transformative power I'm thrilled to be able to serve the community in this role and I'm eager to bring my skills experience and enthusiasm to this position thank you so much thank you thank you [Applause] 0.3 discussion consideration of approval of the new coordinator in professional development so um Stephen you want to make a motion I move to approve Christine Murphy as new coordinator of professional development as presented my second all in favor hi hi motion carries through to zero Dr Wyman turn it back over to Dr fountain all right one more time I'll go Nancy height um so thank you for approving this position as well um this position is directly related to much like the very first one on Arjun today uh to dorsey's retirement um also very big shoes to fill but when we went through the process and I think the statistics are up there but we had somewhere in the ballpark between these two positions of right around 35 to 38 applicants total we did multiple rounds of interviews sorting through those so it was quite an extensive process um some really exciting interests in our in our school district and our community um through that process for this position Miss Murphy Rose to the top is a really nice balance of understanding the work that was done and having a solid vision for what the future may look like and reimagining some of those pieces and so we're glad to have her in this position and remaining with our team in this role Miss Murphy [Applause] I like the hustle I don't want to don't want to delay um so I'm glad someone else brought their phone because I was like how do I do this so Madam president Dr Wyman members of the board thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight uh Dorsey has led our team and it's an honor to be here today my goal in the coming year is to continue the important work of student-centered learning with a focus on rigor in the classroom in the classroom sorry pardon me our team is already working on opportunities for teachers to collaborate and plan for rigorous learning throughout the year at each of our professional learning opportunities and I look forward to working with our leadership team thank you thank you [Applause] okay 9.4 discussion consideration of the adoption of the 2223 annual expenditure budget revision number two Madam president members of the board Dr Wyman and remaining members of the audience action item 9.4 presents the revision number two of the annual expenditure budget for physical year 2023 Arizona revised Statute 15 904 requires the district to submit their final budget revisions for approval no later than May 15th and we must post it to the superintendent of Public Instruction by May 18th that's why we're here tonight revision number two reflects a decrease in our ADM of another 37.5567 students however we finally were given the revenue for our group we B weighed-ons for gifted and frpl which is the free and reduced priced lunches the total change to this revision increased our Revenue control limit by 146 680 which is going to give us a total mno budget for the fiscal year 2023 of 30 million 785 109 dollars page one of the m o budget contains or I should say page one of eight reflects the m o budget and it contains most of the changes that were made there were minor changes that occurred throughout the budget workbook updates to the various subsections in the workbook were made to align with what our FY 23 projected expenditures are however we should note that not all the changes were Financial you'll notice that on page two our district contact page has been reflected to add our newest governing board member Mr Jason Beach so he can sign tonight this final revision to the FY 23 extended your budget and will be reflective until the encumberance period fin finishes around the end of August as per ARS 15905g this is that language you love so much governing board policy dbj and governing board approval on July 13 2022.

and you all look forward to that language I know are there any questions about the budget or the changes okay well with your approval tonight I will make sure that this gets loaded okay all right I moved to approve the end and adopt the 2022-2023 annual expenditure budget revision 2 as presented all right second favor I so she carries three to zero 9.5 discussion and consideration of approval of the 23-24 salary increases so this is just the list of individuals uh back in February we approved the initial rehire list and then in April you went ahead and uh approved the increases to uh for staff based on the projected budget so this budget item just reflects those increases that's why you're seeing a teacher or a person's name and then just the amount of increase over the budget that they already received anybody that's hired after uh your initial approval will have the four percent reflected into their overall contract so that it's not needed there the only thing I would ask we've looked this over several times but you'll note in the motion that does ask that we have the ability to make any minor Corrections if there was an error made but it should reflect for the most part the accurate increases for procedurally it'll go out tomorrow as a a portion in there uh in my learning plan and in front line that they'll show the increase that they have I don't know that they have to sign for it Mark now but will they'll be notified of the increase to their to their contract all right many questions sorry no I don't have any questions but thanks Steve I moved to adopt the 2022 2023-24 salary increases for All District employees as presented and Grant The District staff the ability to correct any minor errors that need to be discovered during the release of contract addenda five second all in favor aye aye discussion consideration of approval of math curriculum adoption I assume that's Dr Fountain I think he's got some others coming up to talk okay all right see if I can outsmart the clicker and away we go all right good evening Madam president members of the board Dr Wyman and Mr Costa we're glad to be here with you this evening to share with you uh the work that's been done for with the math adoption Committee in just a moment I'll be sharing the podium with two of our committee members um and that is Dr selvi Peeples who's currently a sixth grade teacher over at Ranch Elementary and will be their instructional coach next year and then um what's your name and then Cindy Andrew from our team as well um who serves as our math content coach and was instrumental in this process as well so just a reminder that the curriculum of course fits under the curriculum instruction and assessment department and that a rigorous curriculum is essential to the modern learning and our curriculum is intentionally aligned to the Arizona academic standards with clear learning outcomes focused assessments and relevant learning experiences to achieve our desired outcomes for student learning and this is the the same process in terms of those key elements that we've been looking at in our previous IT options to make sure that we have again that academic rigor aligned to standards clear learning outcomes relevant learning experiences one of the big pieces that I want to focus on and that Cindy will talk about during her part of the presentation is the level of rigor in the adopted text particularly in relation to what we currently have in place we've talked a lot over the course of this year as we've presented some of our student data about those elements where we feel like our students are really strong in their foundational skills but those higher rigor activities are where we're struggling this is one of the ways that we're seeking to address that is with this adoption just a reminder of the adoption schedule which you've previously seen we are working on developing and getting in place an eight-year adoption cycle so this one for 2023 being math will align with that and you'll see those numbers and that time frame later in the presentation I want to of course take a moment to recognize those members that served on our adoption committee you can see their names posted there not all these folks made it with us to the finish line but I want to recognize them because they did play a role at some point in time you can also see that we gave it our all to get a relatively equal distribution of different folks from different sites so that we could have many different voices at the table to be able to share what they thought were the best pieces for us to consider for our math adoption this process takes about six months to get through with all of the statutory requirements so it's quite the commitment from the committee to be a part of that we began this back in October and just finished up recently in April before bringing this presentation to tonight so I'm going to turn it over to Dr Selby peoples and she'll share with you a little bit about our process hello good evening um our first meeting was held on October 24th um and we got together as a committee and we set our vision for our committee our vision read as follows as a math adoption committee we will ensure teachers have tools for Success so they will have a plan to better track student data with consistency and time dedicated to meeting student needs during this meeting we also came up with a rubric and we set the criteria for what we are expecting in a good curriculum and from there on our next meeting around February 27th we in um I'm sorry hold on we were able to decide and finalize based on the rubric some of the choices that we wanted to invite over for vendor presentations um later on we were able to meet with those vendor presentations and utilize a agreed-upon criteria rubric that allowed us to narrow it down even further and I'll hand it over to Cindy okay so we started with a whole bunch of choices narrowed it down to six and then from there um we looked at all of the data that we had collected from reviewing the materials and listening to the vendor presentations and also introduced cost for the first time so up to this point we had asked the teachers just look at the resource just choose the best materials and resources for teachers and students and so from all of that data we narrowed it down to these three finalists and these are the three vendors that have been on display in the boardroom here and we also created the digital access and both people who came in person to review as well as the digital access all submitted their feedback through the same form so all of that came in to the same spreadsheet we had 24 responses as of this afternoon still to our public review the majority of those are teachers so our committee members went back and encouraged the teachers on their sites hey go check those out give your input um there's a mix of both Elementary and secondary responses in there and we did have one parent that reviewed all three of the finalists so we had three responses from a parent I know there have been other public people from the community but they didn't submit a response through the form so I don't know their thoughts only that they came and reviewed uh some of the in addition to giving a score using the rubric they had the opportunity to give written feedback and so some of their comments on each of the three different vendors were kind of revealed that they were looking at what kind of supports will students have when they're not in the classroom what kind of supports will teachers have to offer that differentiation how soon did they introduce the different Logistics of the standard does it align so there were really good things that people were looking at and commenting on um but above and beyond Envision kept rising to the top most people chose to review that it had the highest score and it had a lot of positive feedback including from people who have used it in other districts and then have joined our district in the past year or two so uh we met one more time on the 24th of April and we looked at all of the data including the public review data and um felt like the resource that kept coming to the top was enVision Math the nice piece of this is that it does offer that K-12 Continuum so we'll have a consistent resource across all of our grade levels um we also looked at Ed reports to see what does an outside Source say about this and there are three different levels of review that resources go through and so the first one is looking at focus and coherence and if the resource passes that then they move on to the second Gateway which is looking at rigor and mathematical practices and then the final Gateway is okay so if it's a quality resource how usable is it um and so in looking at Envision at the K through two it has really high ratings in all three of those gateways and then we looked at okay what if what if all resources that are out there look really good well this is the one that we have right now so in comparison you can see that there is that focus and coherence at those early grades but it's lacking that rigor and more specifically the mathematical practices so um we were happy to see that that is something that is solid in this new resource that those things are built in um and the teachers aren't going to have to go do extra work to look for those pieces um same thing holds true for the third through fifth grade and again our current resource is lacking in some of those areas um it's even bigger at sixth through eighth grade that we see that um where we know that our resource is really lacking in that rigor and then our high school resource didn't get past the first gateway um I don't think that it's a bad resource but it is lacking that next step of having students create some of their own understanding it's a little bit more driven for students and so the the shift to more student-centered and inquiry is going to be a nice shift in order to make sure that we're meeting the expectations of the standards so with all excuse me with all of that information in mind what we are bringing to you tonight is a request for approval uh to move forward with the enVision Math adoption this would be an eight-year adoption at a total cost of 778.84 if I did my math correctly that would be 89 472 as a yearly average I put up there for you the average cost for the ELA adoption just so you can see that this is on par if not actually a little bit cheaper than that so this is about what we would expect we're finding that as we did with the extension you previously approved with the science adoption for eight years we're finding that that eight year piece is is giving us some nice cost savings so that's good for us and gives us enough time to work on it this is I would say the the mid-level adoption of the resource we did not go with the cheapest option we are getting some additional pieces with this um we had some feedback from the previous adoption with science that there were some components teachers really wanted to make sure they had one of them you'll see up there the teachers always like to have is that hard copy teacher edition so that is included as part of this they also get worksheet Masters so the kids get the the consumable piece to work through and then we purchased at the high school level student editions as a classroom set not student books to go home but student editions as a classroom set everything else is digital courseware so that it can stay updated over that time in addition to that I just want to point out that we do have some supplemental resources that we utilize as with any core adoption there's always some pieces we want to make sure we fill in there's also always a desire to have those outside entities that help us verify that our Core Curriculum is being effective you know sort of that idea that when you assess your students you want to make sure that it's not the same company that the core adoption comes from because of course they're going to tell you that their product is working really well so it's nice to have that outside entity these are some of the um some of the supplemental resources that we are already using ST Math DreamBox learning Delta math and then we do utilize an alternative geometry curriculum and so I just want you to be aware of that that part of what we would be approving is the core adoption but we will continue moving forward with these supplemental resources that we currently use as well any questions so I guess my question is explain to me the average yearly cost and how that works so I'm assuming we don't pay the full now we we pay the we pay the cost up front um so would they they get the the 715 I just put up there the average yearly cost so that we can see how that breaks down over time um it is it is an upfront cost and we're using we're using esser's money that's going to run out anyway so it's it's positive for us to be able to expend that money while it's available to us and then have that eight-year support in place thank you great presentation it was very thorough thank you I appreciate that of course any other questions all right I moved to approve the math curriculum um do I need to say it enVision Math as presented a second all in favor aye motion carries three to zero okay 9.7 discussion consideration of the Arizona State Board Association asba delegate assembly political agenda submission so if you go down to and click on the open that up so these are the I assume these are the one two three four five six things that they that they feel that they're the six major areas that over historically um for both for for political agendas have been uh areas of focus within um Within asba are we supposed to pick like specific things from each one section or they just yeah we did that last time right they just said you have to do your top five priorities I would keep them at the higher level because I get down into the specificity and I think you know as well as anybody about the um the delegate assembly at what level they get with the delegate assembly sometimes someone might want to I'm just going to let me say I got to take a look at this you might have put um on one of your uh top areas someone might have said that they they want a total area just for anti-voucher as an example and so you might say our top four are these and then we would like to request uh fallout movement on vouchers but I would stay at the high level because even within the voucher movement there may be maybe levels underneath that that you may take as a possible agenda item uh once the session goes in next year all right so we are to reaffirm our top five of these six all right so how about we remove the one that we think is least and then we go from there yeah well probably not I mean that's not even I don't think we it doesn't even qualify to us right it doesn't apply to us at this point no so I say we removed that one okay and go with the rest you want to remove the one that doesn't apply to us correct okay any questions on that one nope okay so then we're good with the other all but that one okay so and then you can decide now about a delegate or actually there is time you can you can do a delegate on down the road there's a train moving on here I just want to give Mr Ray a chance to jump out off the tracks but there's a train moving I'm going to hit you back of it all right all right so you want to make a motion on that one all right I moved to approve the uh five areas which are all about Arizona Alba Arizona's Rural and remote schools as our top five areas that we would like to approve for our 2024 asba political agenda wait a second all in favor I I motion carries four to zero okay so um ten one we've already addressed um with Dr fountains um presentation so we're going to just go ahead and move on to 10 2. unless you want to add something Dr fountain okay you're good um all right discussion consideration or approval of changes to policy recommended recommendations from asba policy advisory 744-747 first reading so it's our first reading so that means we read through it and then next meeting will be our second reading and we actually take a vote on that so you have this whole time to read it over right of course yes I know you guys are gonna go home and study um so Dr Wyman is there anything that you would like to address like if anything you want to point out on this one no the one notes there's the uh 744-3746s is based on attorney Arizona attorney general for open meeting so uh because it's coming down from the attorney general we can have a philosophical conversation if we like but last time I checked a lot of Trump's philosophical conversations so uh there's nothing there and then the other one is just a change in law so it's a similar kind of situation to make a vote a no vote on that one so request for future agenda items anybody have anything foreign all right so I will um make a motion to adjourn second at uh 7 10.

this revision is subject to the authorization of the expenditures of money budgeted within the mno sections of the budget for any subsection within the sections in excess of amounts specific in the budget however the total expenditures of the mno budget will not exceed the total budgeted amount for the physical year 2023.

all in favor aye motion carries four to zero seven ten

and you all look forward to that language I know are there any questions about the budget or the changes okay well with your approval tonight I will make sure that this gets loaded okay all right I moved to approve the end and adopt the 2022-2023 annual expenditure budget revision 2 as presented all right second favor I so she carries three to zero 9.5 discussion and consideration of approval of the 23-24 salary increases so this is just the list of individuals uh back in February we approved the initial rehire list and then in April you went ahead and uh approved the increases to uh for staff based on the projected budget so this budget item just reflects those increases that's why you're seeing a teacher or a person's name and then just the amount of increase over the budget that they already received anybody that's hired after uh your initial approval will have the four percent reflected into their overall contract so that it's not needed there the only thing I would ask we've looked this over several times but you'll note in the motion that does ask that we have the ability to make any minor Corrections if there was an error made but it should reflect for the most part the accurate increases for procedurally it'll go out tomorrow as a a portion in there uh in my learning plan and in front line that they'll show the increase that they have I don't know that they have to sign for it Mark now but will they'll be notified of the increase to their to their contract all right many questions sorry no I don't have any questions but thanks Steve I moved to adopt the 2022 2023-24 salary increases for All District employees as presented and Grant The District staff the ability to correct any minor errors that need to be discovered during the release of contract addenda five second all in favor aye aye discussion consideration of approval of math curriculum adoption I assume that's Dr Fountain I think he's got some others coming up to talk okay all right see if I can outsmart the clicker and away we go all right good evening Madam president members of the board Dr Wyman and Mr Costa we're glad to be here with you this evening to share with you uh the work that's been done for with the math adoption Committee in just a moment I'll be sharing the podium with two of our committee members um and that is Dr selvi Peeples who's currently a sixth grade teacher over at Ranch Elementary and will be their instructional coach next year and then um what's your name and then Cindy Andrew from our team as well um who serves as our math content coach and was instrumental in this process as well so just a reminder that the curriculum of course fits under the curriculum instruction and assessment department and that a rigorous curriculum is essential to the modern learning and our curriculum is intentionally aligned to the Arizona academic standards with clear learning outcomes focused assessments and relevant learning experiences to achieve our desired outcomes for student learning and this is the the same process in terms of those key elements that we've been looking at in our previous IT options to make sure that we have again that academic rigor aligned to standards clear learning outcomes relevant learning experiences one of the big pieces that I want to focus on and that Cindy will talk about during her part of the presentation is the level of rigor in the adopted text particularly in relation to what we currently have in place we've talked a lot over the course of this year as we've presented some of our student data about those elements where we feel like our students are really strong in their foundational skills but those higher rigor activities are where we're struggling this is one of the ways that we're seeking to address that is with this adoption just a reminder of the adoption schedule which you've previously seen we are working on developing and getting in place an eight-year adoption cycle so this one for 2023 being math will align with that and you'll see those numbers and that time frame later in the presentation I want to of course take a moment to recognize those members that served on our adoption committee you can see their names posted there not all these folks made it with us to the finish line but I want to recognize them because they did play a role at some point in time you can also see that we gave it our all to get a relatively equal distribution of different folks from different sites so that we could have many different voices at the table to be able to share what they thought were the best pieces for us to consider for our math adoption this process takes about six months to get through with all of the statutory requirements so it's quite the commitment from the committee to be a part of that we began this back in October and just finished up recently in April before bringing this presentation to tonight so I'm going to turn it over to Dr Selby peoples and she'll share with you a little bit about our process hello good evening um our first meeting was held on October 24th um and we got together as a committee and we set our vision for our committee our vision read as follows as a math adoption committee we will ensure teachers have tools for Success so they will have a plan to better track student data with consistency and time dedicated to meeting student needs during this meeting we also came up with a rubric and we set the criteria for what we are expecting in a good curriculum and from there on our next meeting around February 27th we in um I'm sorry hold on we were able to decide and finalize based on the rubric some of the choices that we wanted to invite over for vendor presentations um later on we were able to meet with those vendor presentations and utilize a agreed-upon criteria rubric that allowed us to narrow it down even further and I'll hand it over to Cindy okay so we started with a whole bunch of choices narrowed it down to six and then from there um we looked at all of the data that we had collected from reviewing the materials and listening to the vendor presentations and also introduced cost for the first time so up to this point we had asked the teachers just look at the resource just choose the best materials and resources for teachers and students and so from all of that data we narrowed it down to these three finalists and these are the three vendors that have been on display in the boardroom here and we also created the digital access and both people who came in person to review as well as the digital access all submitted their feedback through the same form so all of that came in to the same spreadsheet we had 24 responses as of this afternoon still to our public review the majority of those are teachers so our committee members went back and encouraged the teachers on their sites hey go check those out give your input um there's a mix of both Elementary and secondary responses in there and we did have one parent that reviewed all three of the finalists so we had three responses from a parent I know there have been other public people from the community but they didn't submit a response through the form so I don't know their thoughts only that they came and reviewed uh some of the in addition to giving a score using the rubric they had the opportunity to give written feedback and so some of their comments on each of the three different vendors were kind of revealed that they were looking at what kind of supports will students have when they're not in the classroom what kind of supports will teachers have to offer that differentiation how soon did they introduce the different Logistics of the standard does it align so there were really good things that people were looking at and commenting on um but above and beyond Envision kept rising to the top most people chose to review that it had the highest score and it had a lot of positive feedback including from people who have used it in other districts and then have joined our district in the past year or two so uh we met one more time on the 24th of April and we looked at all of the data including the public review data and um felt like the resource that kept coming to the top was enVision Math the nice piece of this is that it does offer that K-12 Continuum so we'll have a consistent resource across all of our grade levels um we also looked at Ed reports to see what does an outside Source say about this and there are three different levels of review that resources go through and so the first one is looking at focus and coherence and if the resource passes that then they move on to the second Gateway which is looking at rigor and mathematical practices and then the final Gateway is okay so if it's a quality resource how usable is it um and so in looking at Envision at the K through two it has really high ratings in all three of those gateways and then we looked at okay what if what if all resources that are out there look really good well this is the one that we have right now so in comparison you can see that there is that focus and coherence at those early grades but it's lacking that rigor and more specifically the mathematical practices so um we were happy to see that that is something that is solid in this new resource that those things are built in um and the teachers aren't going to have to go do extra work to look for those pieces um same thing holds true for the third through fifth grade and again our current resource is lacking in some of those areas um it's even bigger at sixth through eighth grade that we see that um where we know that our resource is really lacking in that rigor and then our high school resource didn't get past the first gateway um I don't think that it's a bad resource but it is lacking that next step of having students create some of their own understanding it's a little bit more driven for students and so the the shift to more student-centered and inquiry is going to be a nice shift in order to make sure that we're meeting the expectations of the standards so with all excuse me with all of that information in mind what we are bringing to you tonight is a request for approval uh to move forward with the enVision Math adoption this would be an eight-year adoption at a total cost of 778.84 if I did my math correctly that would be 89 472 as a yearly average I put up there for you the average cost for the ELA adoption just so you can see that this is on par if not actually a little bit cheaper than that so this is about what we would expect we're finding that as we did with the extension you previously approved with the science adoption for eight years we're finding that that eight year piece is is giving us some nice cost savings so that's good for us and gives us enough time to work on it this is I would say the the mid-level adoption of the resource we did not go with the cheapest option we are getting some additional pieces with this um we had some feedback from the previous adoption with science that there were some components teachers really wanted to make sure they had one of them you'll see up there the teachers always like to have is that hard copy teacher edition so that is included as part of this they also get worksheet Masters so the kids get the the consumable piece to work through and then we purchased at the high school level student editions as a classroom set not student books to go home but student editions as a classroom set everything else is digital courseware so that it can stay updated over that time in addition to that I just want to point out that we do have some supplemental resources that we utilize as with any core adoption there's always some pieces we want to make sure we fill in there's also always a desire to have those outside entities that help us verify that our Core Curriculum is being effective you know sort of that idea that when you assess your students you want to make sure that it's not the same company that the core adoption comes from because of course they're going to tell you that their product is working really well so it's nice to have that outside entity these are some of the um some of the supplemental resources that we are already using ST Math DreamBox learning Delta math and then we do utilize an alternative geometry curriculum and so I just want you to be aware of that that part of what we would be approving is the core adoption but we will continue moving forward with these supplemental resources that we currently use as well any questions so I guess my question is explain to me the average yearly cost and how that works so I'm assuming we don't pay the full now we we pay the we pay the cost up front um so would they they get the the 715 I just put up there the average yearly cost so that we can see how that breaks down over time um it is it is an upfront cost and we're using we're using esser's money that's going to run out anyway so it's it's positive for us to be able to expend that money while it's available to us and then have that eight-year support in place thank you great presentation it was very thorough thank you I appreciate that of course any other questions all right I moved to approve the math curriculum um do I need to say it enVision Math as presented a second all in favor aye motion carries three to zero okay 9.7 discussion consideration of the Arizona State Board Association asba delegate assembly political agenda submission so if you go down to and click on the open that up so these are the I assume these are the one two three four five six things that they that they feel that they're the six major areas that over historically um for both for for political agendas have been uh areas of focus within um Within asba are we supposed to pick like specific things from each one section or they just yeah we did that last time right they just said you have to do your top five priorities I would keep them at the higher level because I get down into the specificity and I think you know as well as anybody about the um the delegate assembly at what level they get with the delegate assembly sometimes someone might want to I'm just going to let me say I got to take a look at this you might have put um on one of your uh top areas someone might have said that they they want a total area just for anti-voucher as an example and so you might say our top four are these and then we would like to request uh fallout movement on vouchers but I would stay at the high level because even within the voucher movement there may be maybe levels underneath that that you may take as a possible agenda item uh once the session goes in next year all right so we are to reaffirm our top five of these six all right so how about we remove the one that we think is least and then we go from there yeah well probably not I mean that's not even I don't think we it doesn't even qualify to us right it doesn't apply to us at this point no so I say we removed that one okay and go with the rest you want to remove the one that doesn't apply to us correct okay any questions on that one nope okay so then we're good with the other all but that one okay so and then you can decide now about a delegate or actually there is time you can you can do a delegate on down the road there's a train moving on here I just want to give Mr Ray a chance to jump out off the tracks but there's a train moving I'm going to hit you back of it all right all right so you want to make a motion on that one all right I moved to approve the uh five areas which are all about Arizona Alba Arizona's Rural and remote schools as our top five areas that we would like to approve for our 2024 asba political agenda wait a second all in favor I I motion carries four to zero okay so um ten one we've already addressed um with Dr fountains um presentation so we're going to just go ahead and move on to 10 2. unless you want to add something Dr fountain okay you're good um all right discussion consideration or approval of changes to policy recommended recommendations from asba policy advisory 744-747 first reading so it's our first reading so that means we read through it and then next meeting will be our second reading and we actually take a vote on that so you have this whole time to read it over right of course yes I know you guys are gonna go home and study um so Dr Wyman is there anything that you would like to address like if anything you want to point out on this one no the one notes there's the uh 744-3746s is based on attorney Arizona attorney general for open meeting so uh because it's coming down from the attorney general we can have a philosophical conversation if we like but last time I checked a lot of Trump's philosophical conversations so uh there's nothing there and then the other one is just a change in law so it's a similar kind of situation to make a vote a no vote on that one so request for future agenda items anybody have anything foreign all right so I will um make a motion to adjourn second at uh 7 10.

it also has timelines as to when you're supposed to speak to students and stuff like that from who complained about it there's multiple on Keb as well and in the Keb Dash R it states the timeline that again is inconsistent with the policies being proposed today if they're going to approve new policies or the board here is going to approve them we should be consistent within the other policies that are currently written and or be planning to edit those policies as well also if there's going to be three policies for one form that's extremely confusing especially for the the people filling them out from the community because people don't know how much they're supposed to be looking up on the website so it would be nice to just have them all condensed into one policy per Complaint Form that way that can be handled appropriately with the community thank you thank you okay moving on to agenda item 1.03 the superintendent's report good afternoon president neifle members of the asdb board of directors assistant superintendent catch off an assistant superintendent Cooper and members of the board urgency and the asdb community Welcome to our May 11th 2023 board meeting before I begin my presentation I have five announcements to make that I would like to share with you all the first announcement is to introduce our newest board member Catherine Cinco Katie As She Goes By is here representing acdhh and she has been on the acdhh board for about six years now so she is here replacing former member PV jams so welcome to the board of directors I just learned that she filled out her oath of office so she can vote just so you are all aware thank you we have two more vacancies on the board of directors and we haven't heard back from the board commission about those two vacancies yet hopefully soon they will make two additional selections next I wanted to introduce our acting assistant superintendent Oren ketchup his contract is presented to you the board for appointment as interim assistant superintendent we will be working with you all as well as the deaf community and the blind community and other stakeholders to set up a process for selecting the next permanent assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction so more information will be coming third we also have on the agenda offering a contract to Sarah sotile to become our new special education director as we all know all of our students have IEPs and each IEP has individualized goals that we must satisfy and so Sarah as the new special education director will help us to focus on our efforts in doing that to be compliant with those requirements next as you already are aware the principle for Tucson campus Trisha Waddell has decided to submit her resignation from the position as principal of Tucson campus after one year of working with us we are already actively searching for a new principle and I think next week Monday we have interviews is that correct Leticia we have interviews for the principal position so we are moving forward very quickly because we do need to be ready for the fall semester and finally you all are invited to both of our school graduations we just had two seniors here that beat me to make that invitation for you all to graduation before the meeting began so I hope that you can also attend the Tucson graduation as well we would love to have board member representation there Tucson campus graduation is May 22nd PTSD is May 23rd so those are my five announcements that I would like to make moving on to my presentation my report I would like to talk about accountability I'll start with a short story there were four people the first person is named everybody the second person is named somebody the third person is named anybody and the fourth person is named nobody do I need to go over those again for you so we have everybody anybody and nobody so those four people were assigned a very important task a project if you will anybody thought that everybody would do it so anybody could have done it but they didn't so nobody actually did the work so what happened is somebody found that anybody didn't do the work and they became very upset because nobody was not supposed to do the work they also found out that anybody gave the work to everybody when really it was supposed to be anybody's job but it turned out that nobody took the job and finally did the work is that confusing it is for me too but really the point of the story is the culture of accountability for asdb that's been our Focus to build that culture of accountability if you all remember our three operating principles are accountability collaboration and transparency and that first one accountability is our priority we have been focusing on that focusing on how we can become accountable for our work you all developed a strategic plan and we had four we have four pillars excellent communication and relationships outstanding student development Supreme organizational culture an effective resource management so how do you as the board know that we are accountable for these well you know because of the metrics we use so when you're looking at outstanding student development what measures can we look at or you as the board look at for example state standards and assessments you can look at Benchmark testing right now we are negotiating with the State Board of Education to develop um level grade model oh excuse me layer oh excuse me letter grade excuse interpreter error a letter grade model so each Lea must have a letter grade assigned to it and that comes from SBE so right now the acting assistant superintendent catchov is working with the SBE to figure out the appropriate measurements that are following federal and state requirements that show the work we're doing with our students when you're looking at Supreme organizational culture you could look at our recruitment efforts you could look at our retention metrics you could look at our employee satisfaction survey you could listen to our ombuds person report of her work with our community and effective Resource Management can be measured by the financial reports you receive every two months you know that we just completed the 2022 Sunset audit and that audit was very in-depth of our programming and finances and the Arizona auditor general only had one finding eight recommendations and they presented that to the state legislature and to be honest I think we got four years continuation funds because we have been so accountable up until now if we had not been accountable we probably would have gotten one or two years at most so I do want to have an emphasis on accountability we have data-driven decisions and that is helping us at the State Legislature and they were will continue to help us as we move forward so now the acting assistant superintendent ketchoff and assistant superintendent Cooper will expand more on our accountability efforts but I did want to emphasize to you the board and with the community that we are taking accountability very seriously thank you come on I have a question for superintendent Reitman this is Linda both I have a question for superintendent reichman you said that you've hired a new director of special ed can you tell me more about that person um why you chose them at this time and not previously yes so for a long time we I mean you know since the start of the agency all of our students have been on IEPs and each of our principles and our directors have a responsibility to make sure that every student has appropriate goals within their IEPs and that our itinerant services are working with school districts to meet their IEP goals for their students as well what we found especially during the time of the covid pandemic that is that we were not standardized some of our expertise varied from Principal to director sometimes there were different interpretations of requirements of the law so we decided that the best way to lead the agency in a common Direction was to have one person who would take over the responsibility for the special education component of the students education not just deaf education not on our campuses not the deaf education that we provide in our preschools or early intervention but focus on IEPs and our legal obligations that we have through idea that we must follow so we have not done the best job following idea requirements so we decided we needed to improve and be better in that area so we hired a special education director she agreed and she's starting started her career oh and turns out that she started her career do you want to guess where at PTSD as a deaf education teacher she is fluent in American Sign Language and she decided to transfer to Kyrene School District and was working there for a while and then she became the assistant principal and then she was looking for a way to come back to asdb she saw that we had advertised for the position of special education director she applied and we did select her so she's coming back to us thank you hear me there we are Okay add just a little bit to that um what the special ed director will also help us with our teachers are well educated in teaching deaf kids but many of our kids are not just deaf they have other disability areas and she'll be able to support our teachers to be able to help our kids in the maximum way because sometimes we miss those other areas thank you any other concert questions superintendent seeing none we will move on to 1.04 the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instructions report all right good afternoon board secretary caniffel superintendent reichmann assistant superintendent Cooper members of the board members of the community who came out when we're talking about accountability I'll start with some of the easy items that we've been doing um starting next year we will have instructional coaches at both of the day schools as well as in the preschool that's our way of being accountable to the teachers that we're going to have somebody there to support them as the superintendent mentioned we have had initial meetings um with some staff members from the State Board of Education regarding the a2f accountability model assisting me in that has been Patricia Waddell Lisa ancarelli as well as Christina Boyer who used to be the deaf Mentor program director um the convert it's the start of a conversation for us to find out more about the background of the a through F accountability model what areas we might be able to tweak and what areas are pretty much set in stone by state statute we do we have embraced getting a letter grade but we are concerned that there are some things in the current models um which will be a constraint to us we're all for it being fair we think the model should allow us to get an F but the model should also allow us to get an A and those are some of the areas that we're looking at right now is to make sure is there a model in place that based on what we do we could get an F if we deserve an F but we could get an A if we truly deserve an a we continue to work with the BGC the bilingual grammar curriculum making sure that that is in both of the campuses so we do have a curriculum in place that holds us accountability that holds us accountable to the parents that holds us accountable to the teachers that we're giving them a curriculum that they can use and the materials as we've mentioned in the past a lot of the materials that we use in the school some somebody has to make them and we want to make sure that that responsibility does not fall to nobody um we have three curriculum Specialists who are busting their tail to get it done we could triple that number and still not complete all the curriculum that's needed at the schools okay so I think those are some of the big systematic things that we've taken care of in the last three weeks that I've been in this role as the acting assistant superintendent which will be a temporary stop for me when we move forward with a plan I I have no intent on applying for it I do not believe that I am have the skills needed for the person who needs to be in this seat I do feel like I have the skills to to keep the seat warm and keep keep the academics moving um I've always been a strong believer that every system is only as good as the teachers that you have the average adult is going to spend 90 000 hours working we're going to spend about one-fourth of our life working somewhere we need to be accountable to our teachers that this is a place that they want to spend a quarter of their life in the last three weeks I've spent a lot of time just talking to people um so please have me some Grace if you have any questions about the assistant superintendent report I've only been in here for three weeks I've spent a lot of time meeting with people um I see a vicious cycle that we need to break soon to where everybody I'm talking to they feel like they're being stretched too thin in the duties that they're asked to do and they feel like communication is lacking and I see that being a chicken or an egg issue so we did send out a survey today that should be going out to all the teachers in the agency and all the support staff asking them for their ideas on what can we do to take things off the plate we have great teachers here we have nationally board certified teachers here we have teachers that are winning Awards we need to make sure that we're not putting more and more on them during this teacher shortage I love the cliche that every system is perfectly aligned for the outcomes that it gets um right now that the outcomes we're getting is that we're overwhelming our teachers and our support staff who are working with the kids um so we have long terms and long-term items in place but I think in the short term we need to be looking at things of how do we support the teachers that are here so we can retain them and as people are looking from the outside in at asdb they can start saying wow this is a place I want to be part of and spend one-fourth of my life so with that if there's any questions any questions all right thank you moving on to agenda item 1.05 assistant superintendent of agency operations and Support Services report thank you good afternoon board secretary caniffel superintendent reichmann assistant superintendent kachoff members of the board asdb community and staff members I want to take the opportunity to announce a new addition to my team Miss Shelly beaudine she was hired as our grant developer which is a new position for the agency her responsibilities include identifying potential new funding sources writing submitting and managing multiple funding proposals to support all of our agency initiatives her first day with us was this past Monday welcome Shelley and we look forward to you securing our green opportunities and donations for both our staff and students where we know funding is limited in support of asdb's priorities most of the work that the agency operations and support services team does is tied to as assistant super as superintendent reichman mentioned is tied to pillar 3 superb organizational culture and pillar 4 effective Resource Management each of the directors have provided to you their Department reports and for all of us this year has not come without its challenges some of the most difficult challenges facing the agency as we strive to provide the highest quality education for our students includes managing those resources and that includes our facilities our Personnel our technology and our finances we've established quite a bit of new processes and procedures as we look at continuous Improvement opportunities and we're still working through the implementation of those changes we're making every effort to carefully manage those resources and are putting in place the necessary structure and accountability needed to ensure the agency operates in a fiscally sound manner I mean we all know that we will need to continue to tighten that belt as we move forward with those increased checks and balances to implement that quality education for our staff and students um again as acting assistant superintendent katjov mentioned we can continue to face considerable challenges in recruiting and retaining staff and the team has been working with an external consultant to increase those efforts as we address this to put things into perspective with a count of over 2100 students and having over 700 staff we have over 170 staff vacancies new teaching and support positions are being created and being added to meet those pressing needs of our students and staff however a number of those vacancies remain and a lot of our staff of having to take on a lot more responsibilities including myself um and again we know that that has increased levels of stress low morale in some instances burnout due to those number of vacancies that we have and we realize that compensation continues to be an issue with attracting and retaining those qualified staff and so in a lot of instances we've had to actually contract workers to help maintain some of those critical Staffing levels more specifically within our certified and related services staff to ensure that the continuity of the education for our services for our students continue to be ongoing and that is a challenge especially as we work through the state procurement office and getting those changes addressed so the HR Business Services team have been working on phase two of our compensation or restructure project and to address Ms bross's comments about bringing forth to the board compensation adjustments before staff are designed contracts we've actually had those discussions and so we are looking at changing some of those timelines so that they are brought forth before the May or July board meeting this year's compensation adjustments as I know a lot of Staff have been asking we plan on proposing to the board at the July 20th meeting one eliminating the certified salary schedule and staff would be either moved to the related services or teaching salary schedule two we're also looking at eliminating the educational audiologists and school psychologists salary schedules and moving those staff to the related Services salary schedule we're also looking at ensuring there's consistency among all of the salary schedules that we have so we're looking at consolidating some of them as I've mentioned staff would be granted up to 20 years of certified experience and be capped at a doctoral educational level we will also be recommending those staff that are paid from the classified salary schedule in grades 10 through 22.

it has concrete around it and it has the soft surface in it if we're only talking about six or seven infants that's a big enough area for a for a playground so all that would require is a fence and uh you know around the outside of it so fairly minor expense for that as well don't hesitate to stop me if you want if you want to in any of this place in any of this conversation um so uh so then the only real facilities expense uh is because we had to think about access in the mornings and in the afternoons for the parents of these children and we wanted it to be slightly different than the access for the preschool even though the timing will be such that these children would be coming before the preschoolers and leaving after the preschoolers but we wanted something that would be very functional so on the left hand side of the photo right at the driveway you see some yellow lines right now there's a huge sidewalk section there and I'm proposing that we remove that big chunk of concrete and the two yellow lines would be how we would reroute That Sidewalk slightly and then that that little area would be you know people could pull up park there temporarily take their kids to the pre to the child care and then come back and leave there is a double a big double drive through gate there so we would want to install a walk through gate next to the drive-through gate and uh and we would want to since these are employees we would put a lock on it that would could be open with one of those key fobs that you walk up and you know kind of like we do here wave it and it would let them get in but we would also put a call box there so that if during the daytime somebody else needed to come pick up a child they could push a button and and you know ask to be admitted that way we don't have to have somebody standing there the whole time for you know for beginning and end because that would take them away from the uh from the facility to do that so this is really the only expensive piece in terms of facilities and and I don't have I don't have a good price for you right now we've put that out just to get some quotes to see what it might cost us and then and then we would need to finish that area like the rest of the parking lot that kind of ties in with some of the things we're talking about with the city relative to our conversations about Mountain View and and some some bartering of services as opposed to cash um and then the other thing of course is always security and so you can see three yellow arrows there we have uh we've completed the installation of the cameras around the district that we purchased last year they are amazing um uh they are truly amazing and um uh there were some we ordered some extras so we would install one you can see the arrow close to where this gate would be the walk through gate so we can can see what's happening there we would install one across from the three four-year-old room which would be really helpful because it would let us see that the entrance to that room and also there are two restrooms there that are used by the preschool uh and whatever and right now we don't have good camera coverage of that so it would be a nice nice thing to have that and then we would put one um in the Portico for the one and two or the birth to one-year-olds pointed kind of toward the playground so we could see people approaching and uh for that for that area so the area right behind the two buildings is the our online school and that's good no actually Our Life Academy the building at the top that has the solar panels on it the the right Life Academy is there in four in three classrooms on the end of that building so the pre what is this the building uh the building in the back at one time the Life Academy was in that building but it's not yeah it it was uh in the past right now we we lease on the north end of that building we lease a classroom two classrooms The Corner Room which is a kind of an oversized classroom and then the room next to it we lease those to Legacy foundation for backpack Buddies and uh so um you know so then they come in through transportation and and and have access to that area back there um this whole area is fenced right the whole area is fenced everything is fenced everything in our district is now fenced okay yeah we've been we've been working on that and we've been repairing some I will tell you there were some there was some damage to these fences in the back and Mark found them and we've been having them uh repaired as we go along um the other thing is at the upper left hand corner you'll see where it says a new PS gate and then you see an arrow there for a camera currently the preschool children are being checked in through the cafeteria and brought all the way across campus to the preschool and we started that kind of post covid post covered Tammy yeah and and I'm not comfortable with that long walk for them in that situation and I let them do you know I let them continue this year but I said we need to change that and so um not as part of the of the child care plan we will do this other part anyway but you'll see where it says a new PS gate so we'll install a gate there and then parent uh preschool parent pick up and drop off will be there and then come right down to this building for the students who come on the bus for preschool they will come in the back clear on the right side for through transportation and there is a gate just at the southeast corner of that 700 building that back building the distance that they would walk from there to preschool is not anymore than they've been been you know even the uh the special needs kids who are on the buses are going right now so it's it's a trade-off the other reason that I'm I'm looking at all of these things in the big picture is that the city has approved 400 housing units in the property across the street across Marina from Desert Valley School yeah and so we know that there will be children initially those children especially if they use units are on the south end of that property but regardless the first hundred of those students could go to Diamondback because Diamondbacks enrollment is down significantly and so we would make plans for that but if there are 400 units its entire and Desert Valley is full there's it's entirely possible that we would need this campus for a small k-4 and so in the process of talking about all of these things I wanted to think far enough ahead that we would not have to think about moving the preschool again and if we have the daycare or the child care we don't have to move the child care and so I'm trying to look four or five down years down the road in terms of what we might have to consider so that leaves the whole building that you cannot see on this map that's north of the the um the main building and this back building uh clear on the right that gives us 18 classrooms in those two buildings if we need them for for a k-4 what a good idea to are you talking about the quality of the parking or the quality of the parking all this stuff is pretty pretty bad um no I'm talking about the number of parking spots for right now I don't think so and that's one reason I wanted to make this adjustment down here and make a drop-off Zone because you can see the cars that are in that lot right now are our employees but the parking that's that you can't see that's just north of this main bill or the you know the office building is not full usually so it's shifting those folks down a little bit or maybe one or two cars but I didn't want to have to do that so if if this loading zone if we create this loading zone and unloading Zone we're talking about that being fairly quick and not taking up these parking spaces I also think that at the point where we can improve the quality of our parking lots it's not such a big deal and this entry because this is it's dangerous walking across this drive it's dangerous and so of course that's part of our conversations with the city and um uh so you know I anticipate that it's going to be much improved um can't give you a timeline on that at this point but you know much improved for the preschool then what we would do is because Behind these cars that you see parked here across on that other curb is no parking but during the time that we're doing loading and unloading for the preschool we could have some temporary we could set it up so those are temporary parking spots for people to you know to Stage to come in and or to sign in their kids so we've been trying to think about all of that and count the numbers and and we think that that will work could we use more parking yeah it's a possibility I'm not quite sure where we would put it other than below where you see the X's here if we were to we could come in to the end of the kindergarten playground or what used to be called the kindergarten playground we have some space down there if we needed to why couldn't you take the if you're taking out the concrete down here in the in the left hand corner why can't you take that part of this concrete we could I hadn't even thought about that but we could because that would add at least 10 maybe 12 parking spots I'm just thinking that I when I have personally gone over there it is the parking is just so hard it is hard especially if I'm driving my truck yes you know because yes it's very very limited and very very skinny so you know like I would maybe just think about it well and I think Melinda I think you've got I think you've got a point there I think maybe right that where we're putting that gate we might not want a parking spot right there we might that want that to just be a loading and unloading but just north of that between there and the flagpole or clear on down we could probably put some we could probably do some things with that so we'll look into that well I like that that's an idea yeah um so we're going to have actually for the the daycare then there are going to be five adults to take care of these 21 kids no if you uh no we're really talking about six adults and a director two adults per room and I know I know you're looking at the the low numbers so like the the toddler room that right now only has three if you only have one adult in there that person never ever gets a break and the work and the the hours are 6 30 to in a.m to 5 P.M so we've we've got to have some we've got to have a little wiggle room now one of the pieces of wiggle room um is uh that in the three four-year-old room that's 11 kids right now it would be 11 kids there are two adults in there so at the point where the four-year-olds go across the sidewalk and join the join the preschool program the the one adult one of those two adults can float these other two rooms so they can give people a break you know and then give somebody a break they can cover for lunch they can do some of those kinds of things uh but I don't think we would want to start this and that person also then because they're a floater becomes a really good substitute so if one of the other folks is absent that person already knows the routines and the practices in that room and it's and it can be a good substitute and of course the director can always be a substitute as well um so I don't think we would benefit at all by short staffing this um this process if we were going to do it so my guess my question is at 20 to 25 a day for per kid right um is this going to be self-funding the idea would be to have grants that would help fund some of this so first things first might have some money uh you know if we're if we apply for some grants there are a number of other grant opportunities out there um I can't give you a lot of details about that Tammy do you know some things about some of the other grants that are available if so come up please so you can help answer so there is a new Grant it's called the birth births of five grand it just came out May 1st and so I Jen and I have looked at it a little bit um it's due in June and so there's part of that if we're we're still trying to understand a lot of it but part of that would be for funding to start a birth a birth of the infant infant room in a toddler room and so there's that possibility I also have a current Grant um for coyote can't even the stabilization Grant that's ending in September I've been talking back and forth all day long with them and I have a meeting in a few minutes to go to but I might be able to use some of that money that is that we currently have to help with some of the some of the purchasing of the materials for this for the daycare rooms as well I'm still working on that and so but yes so there are there are some things available and I'm guessing on that amount uh Melinda that's why I said estimate the proposal that the high school is doing for tiny T-Birds for next year is that they're charging their they plan to charge their employees sixty dollars a week for each child so and they're only open Monday through Thursday so that's 15 a day their plan was for anybody else so our employees or Community people they were talking they're talking about 145 dollars a week and so and and for the infants there would be 150 a week for four days so I I kind of picked something in between you know we don't our employees tell us that the amount of money is not of huge concern to them the big concern to them is that they have a stable place for their kids and that they their kids once they're enrolled can't just be oh we now have some other people who take priority so you have have to find someplace else for your child and that's the way tiny T-Birds is set up for next year so and and there are waiting lists for all the daycares in town so I understand why our our employees are anxious about you know about this situation so I'm I just made a guess because I thought I thought 150 was a little high but maybe not maybe not it might be fine that for five days that would be 25 a day thirty dollars I thought was a little high which is what the high school is doing for four days it would be thirty dollars a day so you know I thought okay um and we're not looking to make money on this we're looking to break even and I'm not sure that we would know how that's going to work until we run it for a year you know how Break Even is going to look so the trust is going to ensure the program well our insurance premium go up it would it would um they couldn't give us an amount at this point not a huge amount the rooms are the rooms are already insured because all of our properties are already insured and insured for liability thanks Tammy um uh so it's whatever else that they you know might think be would be a liability on this Rel you know other than just the property liability property liabilities already covered okay I'm trying to think if there was anything else that I really wanted to Caroline just get a question refresh my memory because it's been a while um those playground um equipment it's all covered yes these are covered all of the preschool playground stuff is covered yes yeah there might be a couple of like one toy or one thing that's not but all most all of it is covered okay and the big playground that you see here between these two buildings is bigger equipment and whatever but we're the fence that is keeping keeping our life Academy kids from using that that piece of fence is coming down so it came down today okay um and so so those kids will be there but there is a there's a fence between a six foot fence between and it has not been a big issue it's not been a big issue so no I think Miss Hall keeps those kids yes pretty yes very much so very much a tight ring and the pro that program has functioned this year exactly like I have always envisioned that it should function so that's been really refreshing um licensure you can see that the current license we have licensed for eight up to 85 uh three and three to five year olds and um we are looking already at started the process already so if I do including all of the daycares total so because we would also we would have to have the birth to three licensure which we do not currently have right okay we have three to five for 85 kids and the preschool is running 75 kids and then preschool all of the highest number for the daycare so yeah yeah and preschool is just is just exploding so especially the preschool handicap has just exploded um so um you know so we we're going to need all 85 of those and more for just the preschool um and I meant to I meant to also give you a calendar and I forgot to do that but this would need to depending on well we would just we would just have to set it up because we can't decide oh we're not going to operate today in terms of employees who would work in the child care center we couldn't just decide oh okay we're not going to open today because we have no kids um you know we have to presume that we're going to have kids going to have kids from the first day that our principals return so in next year's calendar that's July 5th and through summer school in June of 24.

before I go forward and go through the presentation um as swiftly as possible I would always like to remind everybody of the hard work that goes into putting together these budget forms and everything that goes along with it Miss Mary Del Speidel and her team do an amazing effort during an extremely busy time right now as we've been working with Auditors for the last few weeks putting everything together she gets it all nice and ready for me to put together and do a presentation so I'd like to extend a big thank you to her and her team I would also like to first just say why are we here budget revisions we do have until May 15th so before May 15th is our last time to revise a budget for this fiscal year and because we are adjusting or doing a budget adoption with that adjusts our RCL we are required to do a public hearing as well um just before I go start going through the slides and explaining what's going on just a quick little um overview of the processes that we started this back in November of 2021 when we start looking at our demographics our projections roll into 2022 for the first six months we work on IBA other budget adjustments work with the board work with our team then we put together a proposed budget in June of 2022 then we do it an adopted budget in July this was one of the first times ever we turned around and revised the budget right again in July because the legislature gave us some more money then we turned around and revised in December the December revision was to clean up to pull instead of estimated rollovers and expenses we moved to actual we moved to actual and current year funding for our revenue and we pulled our carry forward budgets forward in actual instead of estimated so December was a big cleanup and a lot of changes the May revision typically is at towards the end we're moving from our 40th Day to our 100th day ADM so getting those final technical adjustments even though there will be one more adjustment after this but we can't do anything about that because our deadline by May 15th and that is for all of our concurrent Roland students that are online and other institutions we don't know what ADM will split will that happen so we'll probably lose some ADM in July that we won't know about and we'll adjust for the next year but it is a long drawn out process this year for this budget revision not this year this budget revision we are doing a lot of little ups and downs and so we have some increases in Revenue that we didn't anticipate some decreases in ADM and then we are moving some money from mno over to Capital as we're addressing our needs and making sure that we can meet all of our commitments we are moving some money over from mno to Capital so just a quick summary of some of these changes you could see our revised budget so overall total let me also just say between our m o and capital the overall total is a net increase but we are moving money from mno over to Capital and putting the increase over into capital so we are moving some over and you could see a reduction in our revised budget number three compared to number two that we're moving about 800 or about a little over a million dollars I'm sorry I'm doing math the backwards way uh sorry back to the 800 900 000 moving out of mno um and then that is going over into our Capital fund so you can see our Capital funds uh going up from 16.7 to 18.4 and then we also then update our final budget revision we update some other numbers one of them billion our emergency building renewal grant program and you can see it's at 14 million dollars so that's something we've talked about many times of how well we're doing and partnering with the school facilities division of the state um I think I don't know if it's on this agenda item or next uh agenda flow through me a lot but I think we have another three million going through the approval process right now and we continue to look for ways to maximize our efforts with the school facilities board um for our classroom side funds nothing is changing that is once we rolled over and it had the previous year ADM that was locked in we kind of finalized what we think we're going to be with the federal grants that changes a little bit because of our extra spending and plan spend state grants locked in same in our food service as we've noticed the expenditures coming in higher we do have the revenue especially from two years ago but also from this year where past the break-even point and so we say our expenditure is going up by 2 million in that as well as always we put all of our reports and all of our information on our website and I don't want to hit the last slide because that says questions but as always I put together the rainbow report and that's really just to be focusing not on all funds but just to give the board a perspective of where we're budgeting and what we're looking at in just a few of the funds that we look at the most mno classroom site fund and our district additional assistance fund and so you can see our percentages on that the 59.4 in the classroom we look at that we look at Administration which is 8.5 percent so we're looking at just a few thirty thousand foot view just to make sure we're operating and we have the comparison from the previous years on that as well the biggest increase is under transportation and other and that's not really Transportation it's the other side which is construction we have a lot of construction going on in some of our schools and so that amount went up dramatically and you could see a two percent increase in that transportation in other category I do put the auditor general dollars in the classroom down at the bottom so you can kind of fall and see where we're tracking and where we're going um it's kind of been a eventful year with lots of vacancies lots of uh increase in our sub fill rate our employee referral program has worked and so this budget kind of realigns all those expenses to account for all the ups and downs and ins and outs of our school year that we've happened this year to get us to the June 30th so I will step aside and either ask any questions from the board or we can let any public community members speak at this time foreign I just have one question um what about the legislature now that they've approved a budget that's on the governor's desk then when will we see how that impacts um Madam President Pro 10 members of the board this is this year's budget so we will talk about next year's budget at that agenda item and so yes I will talk about that definitely anything I'll open it up for the public to comment okay I'm sorry I didn't hear that oh okay oh thank you anyone else okay thank you so much all right and now we'll move to item C1 audience with individuals we do have one I'll go ahead and read the confidence or the statement 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 38-431.01 H 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 tonight we have Dr Jody Weber good eating superintendent Madame Pro term and members of the board I'm Dr Jody Weber much more importantly though I am Mimi to this boy elysio via Alba Alicia is a second grade student at Mountain View and has been a proud mountain lion his entire educational career he also happens to be my favorite person on the planet and if he were here right now and heard me use the word Planet he would launch into about a 30-minute diatribe about all kinds of facts about the solar system which would be 100 accurate he was doing division at age four and has a beautiful way of seeing the world around us he is on the Spectrum and is in the special education program like many on the Spectrum he struggles socially and needs routine and predictability last year his family expanded which necessitated a move my daughter his mother spoke to an administrator about Open Enrollment policies before the move she was told that since he is an existing student he would be able to continue at Mountain View she chose a home just outside of your District's boundary and has provided Transportation all year to ensure that alicio has the stability that he needs however earlier this semester my daughter received a notice to submit a required open enrollment request she complied but Alicia was denied my grandson was destroyed at discussion of changing schools and said but I like my school and I finally made friends a course we connected with the school and with the District staff to whom we were directed the decision was supported with Arizona revised Statute language specifically indicating that open enrollment statutes allow District to set capacity limits for specialized programs that's true very valid in fact the language is taken directly from Arizona revised statute 15-816.01 what is not included in the district justification is the complete statute language that exact same statute ARS 15-816.01 also States anti-quote a school district shall give enrollment preference and Reserve capacity for students returning to the school from the prior year because alicio is a pupil returning to school from the prior year and because the statute states that capacity shall be reserved he should be permitted to continue at Mountain View I'm sure you're already aware that your District policy is uncommon and I hope that you choose to reconsider the decision for Eliseo the district's refusal to allow a special needs student to continue and the only school he has ever known not only violates the state language it seems exploitative of the most vulnerable student population if adherence to state law is not enough of a motivator to revisit policy I ask that the district act with moral imperative to consider the best interest of students specifically my grandson if humanity and morality are not strong enough motivators to revisit policy perhaps the district should consider doing so to avoid managing complaints made to the office of civil rights thank you Madam president pro tem we will follow up with Dr Webber okay next we have item D1 do we have a student update Madam president pro tem I'm going to turn this over to Dr crotto thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board cabinet guest tonight we have Haley Crawford from Valley Vista here once again so Haley it's all yours we have a special guest with you too so go ahead and introduce good evening Madam president members of the board as you guys know I'm Haley I've been with you guys all years your dslc Dysart student Leadership Council liaison and it's been my honor to serve this term being your liaison updating you guys on our meetings this is Val shall be one of the two students taking over for me next year as I move on to secretary for Diet Start student leadership Braley will be coming at the next meeting as well as will Val and they'll be taking over from there first off I just like to say it's been a wonderful year with you guys getting to know you guys seeing you guys around our campuses and just coming in every day seeing you guys and telling you what's happening at our Council speaking of our Council we just had our previous conference for all the student councils in our district and went really well it was exploring leadership and we all dressed as animals we thought it was really fun and we talked about leadership and what it means to be a leader we also all had our proms all of them turned out great we were all super excited for a lot of us it was senior year Proms and for a lot of us it was our first time planning a prom so that was super great we had our last dslc meeting last Tuesday it was really sad but we said goodbye to our seniors and we welcomed in our new incoming officers which I will be talking about right now our current president for the next year is going to be Kimberly from Willow I will be secretary it will be Brooke from Dysart and then as I said it will be Val and Braley also from Valley Vista so you guys will be seeing all of us we'll be making sure that we're all attending the board meetings just to come and show our support for y'all as you guys support us this upcoming year and then lastly I would just like to say goodbye and thank you guys for letting me come and speak with you and talk with you about all the good and the bad that's happened this past year and I really appreciate the opportunity thank you so much next we have the superintendent update Dr Dean thank you madam president pro tem members of the governing board cabinet in our community I'd like to start off by saying thank you to Mr musee who has taken uh the role this year of um being the facilitator for the Dysart student leadership team and what a great job he's done as evidenced by our great students and and Haley thank you for serving as a spokesperson this year Bob we look forward to let me rephrase that Val they look forward to seeing you here next year so very good this is uh you know there's a lot of weeks during the year a lot of days that are announced as recognition days and those kinds of things and sometimes there's different days for the same purpose but we know that this is teacher appreciation week and so we want to just take a minute and thank all of our teachers and and the tremendous work that they do in what I consider to be the greatest profession in all of the world um you know as teachers we we build the future and we continue the opportunity for our our democracy to continue and and uh thank you to our teachers thank you for all your hard work and thank you for being part of our team also last week with staff appreciation week and so we don't want to uh to uh go without thinking all of our staff and as we get very close to the end of the school year we just want to say thank you to everyone on our team for all the great work that they've done throughout the course of the Year there are nine school days left and we are looking forward to the last nine days and our teachers and our staff and our administrators are doing exceptional work with our students all the way till the last day speaking of getting close to the last day of school graduation is right around the corner I'm just a reminder that graduation is on Monday May 22nd and we are looking forward to celebrating with all of our graduates on what is an absolute blue celebratory day and so we look forward to that like to remind the board that uh tomorrow State superintendent of Education Tom Horn is coming to the district he is coming to celebrate two of our schools that were in the top 10 of all schools in Arizona district and Charter for academic growth and both of these schools did a tremendous job of turning things around and so uh superintendent horn will be at El Mirage Elementary School in the morning at 9 30.

you're very familiar but the units that that we're looking at in this case most of them are still R22 freon which you can't get anymore uh they're eight greater than 15 years of age at this point so getting getting maintenance parts of them is starting to become problematic Etc so there was a very targeted effort to maximize the value to the district okay how much money have you saved us over the years oh God you have to ask that um I should have known we've paid we actually haven't I don't know that we've actually targeted or came up with a total I can tell you we were talking about this at lunch a few weeks ago you guys haven't adjusted your utility budget since we started doing work for you yeah you haven't had to increase your utility budget the entire time even though you've added square footage to square footage and rating increases rate increases right it's been a great thing unfortunately I have to say this might be the last time I get to come and find you guys because the next time we the only thing we can think of that we will be able to do is when you build a new school similar to what we did for uh the mountain and for uh Glenn Gladden will build the solar when you build the building so right yeah it's been a great partnership and we're now at the point we're going to try to get you some award recognition too because I'm we're pretty darn sure you're the most efficient School District in Arizona right now cool and a little bit left between the things we're not doing we looked at but aren't doing if the district does those with the remaining bond funds you have over the next couple years you will reach that Net Zero Energy use so I think you're you're under five percent as a result of this project so yeah all right it has done great work we'll see in a year or two then all right thank you thank you 2009 seems like yesterday so I'm going to just saying thank you um next item is item J5 and that's to conduct an executive session can I have a motion please I move that the government board document executive session presumed to ARS 38-431-03 A5 for the purpose of Consulting with Slash and or slash instructing the board to representative regarding negotiations I second all those in favor aye aye thank you for coming thank you

has everybody had a chance to review the meeting minutes yeah and we'd like to make any questions or comments questions but we like to make a motion to approve those minutes as presented I'll make that motion thank you Mr Miller Camp do I have your second oh second a second okay roll call please yes and uh Greg Meyer yes hi yes Tyson search yes yes perfect passes with that our next item is recognition of our retiring board members like like Scott middle camp and Tammy Hines for their time on the board it is a very thankless job but the pay is well worth it right now yeah exactly we received no pay and no gratitude and that was a lot of gratitude and it is self-sufficient but uh Tammy is not here but Scott Tammy have been a just a really integral part of this board and they both just care very deeply they both are very intelligent people they bring a lot to the party and they're our senior board members so you guys have been on longer than anyone else and just as of tonight Scott always catches the little stuff and keeps me in line and I appreciate that I definitely need it scatterbrain but uh the the knowledge especially Scott has of the district and the history and everything else is is really phenomenal and we do reserve the right to call you for some advice yeah I'm always there you got my number I appreciate that I think we do have a little something for recognition for your time on the board and you do get paid oh that is cool have the Board of Education we thank you for your service thank you thank you very much thanks Scott thank you thanks for 15 years yep 15 years this is awesome because Eagle View we resurrected that From the Ashes well that's right back then yeah it's wonderful now I can say back in the day just like an old dude right about 10 years ago right yeah you were involved in the Middle School no middle school was right before right before me yeah yeah like I'm very sincere appreciate everything you've done and you're ready no I I appreciate it this is I moved to this District I moved to Colombia because of this District um we came and visited uh the elementary school we sat in on a kindergarten class uh we had we had purchased a lot to build a home and that kind of went sideways so we didn't get here in time for Kelsey to start kindergarten but we found another lot we built another built a home and she started fifth grade here so she went right into Middle School at the old unit building and uh we figured that'd be the best transition for her going you know what kids were going from elementary to Middle School he's now 30 and gone my son went all the way through school here too so but we did we chose this District um Dr B sat down with us and and talked to us about what what this District was all about back then and uh we wanted a place to raise our kids it's awesome well Scott and Tammy both are the first ones to step up and it's got as everybody knows served as president before me and did a better job than I'm doing but uh it's uh it's rare to find somebody that's in it for the right reasons and those two are definitely on the right reasons so thank you very much and with that is a Bittersweet moment because it's sad to see our departing board members leave but it's exciting to have some fresh ideas and faces in our midst so I believe it's time to seat our new board members we have to privilege canvas oh that's right that's right I'm getting I'm just so excited to get you guys all right okay I'll try all right so so this is my first time singing board member so I'm a little uh Scott went just like that all right um so we need to approve us the canvas of votes from April 4th 2023 the county clerk is responsible for the canvas the votes and the board only needs to review and make a motion to approve the canvasive votes from the April at least review them make sure emotional so we need to make a motion to approve the canvas so the votes for the April 4th 2023 Consolidated election so if anybody would like to make a motion to approve the campus of the votes from the April 24th to 2023 consolidate election as prescribed which provides there was a total of 1 896 votes for Lisa Schumacher 1624 votes for Kelly is it Maurer sorry yeah you might as well wait because they have to do that as part of the motion okay yeah the board member has to do that yeah Nancy I am just [Laughter] all right would even like to make a motion I'd like to make a motion to approve the canvas of the votes for the April 4th 2023 Consolidated election as presented which provides there was a total of 1 896 votes for Lisa Schumacher 1 624 votes for Kelly Moyer and 1 673 votes for Noreen Friedrich [Music] [Laughter] so we have a motion we have a second yes Tyson second okay thank you all right all in favor all right all right any opposed so all right motion carries now word Minister the oath of office thank you sir [Music] go ahead I gotta go straight down here before they take them yep hey you have big shoes to fill 15 years I think the proper phrase is there's no tag backs yeah I just want to go this way just tell us where you want it good attitude all right so if you're read after me I and your name yes pull up here so I in your name do sound we swear or affirm that I will Faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the Board of Education Columbia School District number four in accordance with the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the state of Illinois and the constitution of the and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability solemnly swear that I don't think fully discharge the duties of the office of member of the borderville communication of Columbia Community Unit School District number four in accordance with the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the state of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability I further swear or affirm that I should respect taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district assets I first swear that I shall respect taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets I shall encourage and respect free expression of opinion but my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees I shall encourage and respect the free expression of my opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek by hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees I shall recognize that a board member has no legal Authority as an individual and that decisions can only be made by a majority vote at a public board meeting I shall recognize that a board member has no legal Authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a public board meeting I shall abide by the majority of the decision of the board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels I shall abide by thy majority decisions of the board while retaining the right to seek changes is such decisions through ethical and constructive changes as part of the board's education I shall accept responsibility for my role in Equitable and quality education of every student in the school district as part of the Board of Education I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the Equitable and quality age education of every student in the school district I shall Foster with the board extensive participation of the community formulate goals defining outcomes and set the course for Columbia Community Unit School District Number Four I shall Foster with the board extensive participation of the community formulate goals to Define outcomes and set a course for Columbia and Community School District number four I shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework I shall assist in establishing the structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework I shall strive to ensure the continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state laws I shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law I Shall Serve as education's key Advocate on behalf of students in and our community school or schools to advance the Visions for Columbia Community Unit School District number four and I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent I'm just a superintendent to lead the student the school district towards fulfilling the vision the board has created fostering Excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills knowledge citizenship and personal development I shall strive to work together to lead the school district toward fulfilling the bill that the board has created fostering Excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills knowledge citizenship and personal development Public Act 100-1095 effective 119.