thank you very much yeah all right passing on to the administration definitely would love to support the special Tech folks that want to come in here thank you all right so the board has now resumed in both sessions and the 12 19 it has four of them so uh section 13 reconvene the open section the sort of acting taking an open session Mr tarika will you present yes thank you uh going to report out on the action taken in closed session item 12.03 claim for damages of mg on a motion by vice president by trustee Flores Shelton the claim was denied by a vote of 5-0 item 12.03 as well and a claim for damages of hmn on behalf of minor RN on a motion by trustee Chavez seconded by trustee Flores Shelton the claim was denied by a vote of 5-0 item 12.06 appeal of findings in investigative report on a motion by trustee Flores Shelton seconded by trustee Chavez the appeal was denied by a vote of 5-0 there are no further items to report in code session okay uh working future board then the request request from the board of prestige shall be submitted in writing the superintendent or designate with support and documents and information if any at least one week before the scheduled meeting date items submitted less than a week before the schedule meeting maybe postponed to a later meeting in order to allow sufficient type of consideration and research of the issue and so with that I will return the meeting at 121 team at 1am next meeting this June regular meeting is June 8th the 9th thank you
it's the lowest year for the for the small District and it's the biggest year for the other District so regardless of how the system is set up right now for a funding education in Arizona property poor districts function just on just on property taxes in their County and then the equalization that comes from the state budget the other districts who have the buying power or the the voting power if you will generate all these other dollars so when somebody says to you why is it that your District can't compete for salaries with and they pick some other District part of what I would like for you to think about is to say to them is that a district that is property rich or a district that's property poor okay because I'm guessing that it's a district that's property richer than we are and please understand I'm not trying to disparage our County or our property owners or anybody like that that's not the issue here the issue is to help us understand why it is that some districts can have a base salary for teachers that's fifteen thousand dollars higher than what we have and why it is that it makes it more difficult for us to recruit people to come to our district when there really isn't a whole lot we can do about that um I would not even I would not even think about going to our voters for a an override or a bond I just would not do it because it puts too heavy a burden on individual homeowners and and we don't have the other tax base to to level that playing field so just a little bit of budget 102 and to give you some talking points if somebody is asking you about you know about salaries to know that we are doing the best we can the most we can with what we have and uh and you can see that we're I don't know that we're right where this this smaller you know this district is but we're closer to that way closer to that than we are to the other District um and somebody pointed out to me today that um the numbers below the line I'm sorry when I took this screenshot yesterday I didn't I didn't I cut off the the key so I can't tell you what it is but if you look at um 2011 okay the the district on the right has more money below the line which means where they lost money then the other district has above the line wow so you know it's just uh so it has to do with uh with some disparity in in those kinds of things so um I just wanted you I thought maybe this would be helpful for you all to be informed and be able to answer questions that people have out there in the public in the Phoenix right exactly right it's a suburban school okay and the other one is a suburban and it's not Scottsdale you know it isn't Scottsdale so we're not talking about one of the wealthiest districts here we're talking about a wealthier a wealthier district but certainly you know that when they set this chart up to share with us yesterday the business Managers Association they weren't trying to show us the worst funded School compared to the best funded school they were showing us something in the middle and but it's such a dramatic it's such a dramatic graph that I thought that this was worthwhile for you all to see okay and we're still going to do the best we can to get the best people we can with what we have and I think that's all I have for my miscellaneous stuff thank you very much anybody need to say anything about word updates here you guys thinking all right Fred I was uh fortunate to be able to attend the um staff Appreciation Day at uh that was at Desert Valley right on the fifth and it was uh very uh encouraging and and as I have opportunity to go to Gatherings of the educators that love on our children here in this District it just is so encouraging and exciting to me to see so many people at these things teachers and staff and what is even one of the best things is the excitement that they have for their students I I went to the Fishbones event a couple of months ago and that was amazing to see all of the teachers and staff taking a day of their own free time they didn't have to show up for this but they care so deeply about being able to provide the education that the children need here and I'm not an educator and it just blows me away that there's so many Educators and our district that care so deeply about the children more than anything else more than their their uh their paychecks it's obvious and it just is so refreshing to be able to go to these events and see all these wonderful people and and the excitement that they all have to teach our children and I too was uh able to go to the appreciation lunch last Friday and stuff and it was it was very enjoyable it was nice walking around talking to a lot of the old some of my old communities are still Iraq so it seems on my old buddies and stuff but uh just being able to thank the teachers for all they've done for us and stuff and it was a nice you know they were all having a good time is listening to the conversations and the pulled pork was very good they ran out the pulled pork and that that that vendor ran out of everything except beans and Cass uh Cass I'm glad you mentioned that Cass did all of that organization and she did a great job with that and uh and the vendors were very happy when they were done we had guaranteed them a certain number of you know a certain number of meals and I think all three exceeded or one exceeded we're right on yeah they at least made the you know they at least had enough that of what what we had guaranteed for them so um uh yeah and the food was good very good and I'm really glad that you all could could protest participate thank you um Barbara and I were having a discussion about because I'm calendar challenged uh is promotion the 23rd yes okay Tuesday in our email that is okay I didn't I didn't get on email but I didn't I said uh the 18th 8th grade promotion but then the next line said dance and I didn't see the word dance I just saw the eighth grade promotion when I was driving by it it's the 23rd it's Tuesday the 23rd yeah okay in the morning and we're all invited to be there yes okay anything else it's nice to see Sheila here doctor Sheila thank you for showing up and being part of us okay consent agenda I have a question on the consent agenda um we have an executive session at 11 or 4.11 is that consent agenda no for 4.12 no it's actually it that's just the lead into it so the the actual executive session is five I was I thought yeah who did that get put on no it's it no it it's just the way board docs sets them up okie dokie and and um uh maybe before you take action I would like to introduce you to Mary pulsinelli who is here visiting tonight and she is the new uh if you all approve this list is the new assistant principal at Desert Valley for next year so foreign thank you um I need is there any is there any part of the consent agenda that you guys would like to pull for further discussion okay then I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as present presented I'll make a motion that we approve the consent agenda as presented I will show you that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton I verbs are the king hi Sheila Burnett okay item 4.12 convening into executive session because for consideration of student discipline pursuant to ARS 38431 dot or .03 A2 discussion or consideration of Records exempt by law from public inspection including the receipt and discussion of information or testimony that is specifically required to be maintained as confidential by the state or federal law and ARS 15-840 a [Music] 15-841bd and 815 843 a and F through H regarding the suspension or expulsion of pupils do I have a motion to convene into executive session executive session I'm sick of that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton we are now in executive session [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] 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foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] I'll make a motion that we return to regular session I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki hi Sheila Burnett I don't find this one he's already resigned but this is oh okay please okay here we go policy j i c j student use of digital communication and electronic devices this is our third third reading yes third reading [Music] um are there any questions that remain on this do I have a motion to adopt this as a policy I make a motion that we adopt policy j i c j student use of portable electronic devices in school as presented to us this evening with no changes in the wording right is there a second follow those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barb zerziki aye Sheila Burnett we need uh please give whoever really wrote that and I imagine it was probably you give yourself a pattern of that because it's really really well written I I lifted it from others and put them together so I can't take the credit but you still did the work you did the cut and paste I did the cut and paste 7.2 policy iibr class size for special education this is madam president and board members this is uh this was the item that was tabled last month because I had the wrong attachment so this is a regulation what this is is some teacher student ratios for our special education classes if you kind of scroll down a little bit so we can see okay so this Pol this regulation has been in place for many years and uh and I think those of you who worked in the district will know will recognize that it was never very realistic in terms of what we could actually afford to do in the district and um and since our part of our decision-making process for open enrollment is based on capacity we needed this to reflect actual capacity at our at our in our special education classes and the realities of what we face um you know with budget and those kinds of things so I met with Kate Hall a couple of months ago and we worked on these numbers as as realistic numbers so we're recommending approval of this regulation at this point so that we're ready before we Grant open enrollment and those things yeah um Dr Burnett f-t-e is full-time equivalent equivalent yeah okay there's a lot of Education jargon sure and don't be afraid to ask about you know what those mean yes um I need a motion to adopt this as a policy or as a regulation I make a motion that we adopt policy iib Dash R class size special education as written I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski aye Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarziki aye Sheila Burnett okay 8.1 school or F year or f y fiscal year fiscal year okay all right you got it fiscal year 23 budget revision number two we discussed this in our Workshop um some time has passed anybody have any questions okay I need a motion to adopt and please remember to make the the your motion to include correcting those three items under budget expenditures on page one oh yeah oh no that's not this one that's not this one um we have a motion I make a motion that we accept the budget the revised budget with the corrections to Dr Stewart could you the three items under budgeted expenditure yeah three items under budgeted expenditures moving them to the other categories second I'll second that all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki I'm Sheila Burnett item 8.2 Wells Fargo line of credit for fiscal year 2324 this is something that we do every year it is something that we do every year Madam president and board members we set up the line of credit with Wells Fargo Bank we have not used it in I think in five years we've not used it however it's a good idea to have it in place so that in the instance where uh the the funds do not come from the state in time for us to pay vouchers either payroll vouchers or other vouchers that we you know that we're not holding up payroll and we're not holding up payment so I recommend that we approve this any questions do I have a motion to to uh go for a line of credit at Wells Fargo for the school year 23 24.
I'll make a motion that we approve the Wells Fargo line of credit for the fiscal year 23 24. Charlene Diaz do we have a second all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski aye Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki I Sheila Burnett item 8.3 revised Bullhead City School District classified salary schedule for school year 23-24.
Madam president and board membership probably getting tired of me bringing this back with revisions but it it occurred to me a while back that if you look over on the left side you see that we have one one salary Lane for our paraprofessionals but then we also give some additional salary to those who have an AAA degree and it occurred to me and we do that also with our Tech folks and with their experience and that kind of thing it occurred to me that we have some folks in our business office who have degrees and and that we ought to recognize the fact that they have advanced education so even though all these details are not down here I ask I'm requesting that we move anyone in the business office who has as an AAA degree in the field of their job description or anybody who has a bachelor's degree in any field that we put them on this higher higher Lane the total cost for this right now with the Personnel that we have would be about six thousand dollars a year any questions I need a motion to to adopt the revised Bullhead City School District classified salary schedule for school year 23-24. I make a motion that we uh adopt thank you your brain here that we adopt the classified salary schedule for the school year 20 uh 23 24.
is there a second I'll second that motion Charlene Diaz all those in his favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki aye Sheila Burnett okay we have a first reading gcd professional support staff vacations and holidays Madam president and board members there is a new federal holiday that's been recognized in the last year it's Juneteenth and uh so we've added it to this policy as a paid holiday it is first reading so no votes required tonight it is a Federal holiday it is a Federal holiday yes I did have that down as a question yeah the college is closed that day remember we can move on I'm not going to do anything so yeah so we're going to go to 8.5 transfer 30 surveillance cameras to Colorado River Union High School District number two Field House Madam president and board members As We have replaced the old cameras with our new ricotta cameras they've removed these cameras from from use in our district they are not compatible with the new system and by law we can do this we can transfer equipment and you know Surplus in this case it's Surplus for us to another school district this is a legal move and they can in fact make use of these at the field house because they have a similar system there okay any questions can I have a motion to transfer these cameras to crushed Madam president I make a motion that we transferred these Hardware items to Anderson field house that's stipulated in this document is there a second I second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton aye beverage zarzicki Sheila Burnett 8.6 intergovernmental agreements with Colorado River Union High School District Madam president and board members this is a continuation of four igas that have been in place with the high school district for a number of years the only one that has many changes in it is the educational technology Consortium the high school district is moving to to their own things and have been for a year or so and so we made note and in fact I gave you both copies because I gave you the one with all the red lines so you could see the things that are going away and the things that are changing and and anticipate changing next year and then gave you a clean copy so you can see what it really looks like the other three are very similar the only big change in the others for is the administrative Services Consortium um the the current year it has included the hearing officer and the El coordinator positions that were a part of this IGA in the past um and the high school district indicated when we started talking about this that with Chuck's retirement that they would be they would be handling their own hearings and and their own El program so uh that dropped out so the only shared service administrative service that we would have for next year would be the warehouse facility so that means that many of the the male and any of the deliveries that come to the high school district because they do not have a facility come here and our warehouse manager delivers things and delivers campus mail within our district but also to to River Valley and to the high school so this would be a continued service and they pay a percentage of his salary hmm okay okay and I'll answer other questions if you have them about any of these I'll make a motion how we approve the intergovernmental agreements with Colorado River Union High School the district is there a second I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski hi Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki I'm Sheila Burnett 8.7 school classroom site fund plan for school year 23 24.
Madam president and board members as noted in the public statement public notes there this has to be approved each year it gets slight revision each year and you will hear teachers and other Educators call this prop 301 because it was it was established by a proposition a referendum in 2000 and one I think it was and um it has been approved by 98 of the teaching staff and there's a committee that works on this this year just as a side note the the payout that our teachers will have next month will be in the neighborhood of eight thousand dollars gross so you know taxes and things come out of that but that's the amount for this year for our folks is right around eight thousand dollars and this is this is paid for with sales tax and each year the state tells us how much persu how much money per student we will get into this into this account for the following year so hmm um I had a question on this is there a rubric that the teachers actually because there's proficient and distinguished they get the right up here uh developing an ineffective yes that's all part of the evaluation plan okay and so when that when they're evaluated then the points are added up and it and there's a certain number of points for each of those I just was making sure that yes yeah it has to be tied to the uh this piece has to be tied to the evaluation system okay thank you [Applause] um any questions all right I need a motion to to adopt the classroom site fun plan for school year 23 24.
Madam president I make a motion that we adopt the classroom site fund plan appeal process that's been that's just the appeal problem you want to adopt the whole plan yeah sorry okay not just the appeal process the fun plan there you go is there a second I said go ahead I seconded it all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi everybody sir ziki aye Sheila Burnett item 8.8 additional special education teaching position for the preschool we have this many more kids we do this year we actually uh for quite a bit of time had a waiting list and by law we cannot have a waiting list so it meant to to serve all of our preschool handicapped students we had to go to half days so they are all in half day right now those half day sessions the four we have are full we've already done child find and screening for next year it is very likely that we would open the year with the fifth section almost full and so even though we had not found teachers for those two positions this year we have to have the courses the other then we have some students who do not require full day or you know the full half day session in uh in a special ed classroom but they require some special ed services so this position would allow us to add that fifth section of pretty much self-contained preschool and then the other half of the day the teacher could provide the the special ed services to the group of students who don't need to be in one of those classrooms and so they are distributed among our our other preschool classrooms on the Coyote Canyon site but they still deserve to get services um so yes it's I think I used the word earlier exploding so what is you have a percent of increase just out of curiosity well the fact that we had to go from two sessions to four sessions this year it gives you a pretty good idea yeah okay do I have a motion to approve the additional special education teaching position for the preschool I make a motion to approve an additional special education teaching position for the preschool I'll suck at that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki hi Sheila Burnett item 8.9 direction to the superintendent regarding the Bullhead City School District Child Care Center Madam president and board members this is the topic that we had in our Workshop tonight and uh giving you giving you the research and the feasibility study that that we've made and I need some direction on how you would like to proceed my recommendation at this point is that if you really would like for us to proceed with the idea of a child care center that that you authorize a director position so that we can have someone on board I'd like by March by May 30th even though it's not the new fiscal year yet but so this person can be looking for Grants and and helping us get this set up so essentially I'm asking you to commit to a Child Care Program or tell us not at this time one or the other my personal opinion if I may is I think we need to move forward I think it's absolutely necessary that we can provide child care for our teachers I think that is a big sell to bringing in new teachers is also a big sell to maintain the teachers that we have they should not have to worry about where their children are at during the day and I think I think we need to move forward with that Madam president I would make a motion if I may to direct our superintendent to establish and move forward with the bcsc child care center in addition I also would include in this motion that we establish a director position for this project and that authorize our superintendent to proceed with that as well okay all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki I'm Sheila Barnett item 8.10 purchase an installation of a storage building for damage the surplus furniture and equipment Madam president and board members there are very strict regulations about how we can dispose of materials whether they're broken or not if they're Surplus usable so one of the ways we can do you just approved relative to the cameras that that we can in fact donate to another school district and in some cases we could sell to another school district as well so that's one way but we're not allowed under most circumstances even with something that is so damaged especially if it's a capital asset that's so damaged that nobody could use it for anything we can't not just send it off to the trash or to the dump there are there are things that we have to do and right now we have equipment sitting in our various School sites which makes it very difficult for us to in an organized way remove those things in you know in in an efficient kind of way um the warehouse is not big enough to house them I after some thought and some discussion with others felt that this was a reasonably priced way for us to centralize that equipment and and materials and those kinds of things on an ongoing basis because it's going to continue you know we have we have chairs and we have desks and they get broken and whatever and you know to get them away from our sites they're kind of unsightly and they take up space and and that kind of thing and it would also allow us then to have a much more efficient way of selling them one of the things we can do with them legally if we can have an auction that's kind of a big deal to have an auction once a year we can there's some other things but the easiest way is for us to have these things centralized put a price on them stick a price on them kind of like a garage sale we have to advertise that we have these things available but we could say okay every Thursday from two to four you can come to the district office to our to our facilities or our storage our our you know this this property and uh and purchase things and um so then we can do that as an ongoing thing as opposed to a once in a while thing and it would be a much more organized and efficient way for us to do this so I'm estimating based on some research that Jenny Beck did for us that this would cost no more than uh 25 000.
where would we put this building right back here we have a nice we have a nice flat area behind this building and and this uh the buildings that we're looking at would have their own flooring where we would be looking at a building that's 16 wide by 38 feet long and I would have kind of a double door thing on the end and then a single door on the side that would you know that we can go out beside our employees could go out the side and it would have a floor so we would not need concrete we don't need footings they come in it's too big to be just moved in it would have to be constructed but it comes in pieces and part of this price is having it having it installed if you will right out here on this flat piece of ground behind this building and we would be looking at something that in appearance would would coordinate with these other buildings so that it wouldn't look like something that we just slammed down there yeah it wouldn't be an eyesore Dr Stewart um what material would this building be made of it depends on well we know we have some local vendors and so Jenny had kind of put together an uh an RFP or an RFQ a request for quotes and I said you know you can't send it out until we get some approval from the board on this but I'm guessing that the sides would either be metal or they would be a sighting a wood siding the roof would be shingles or one of the local companies has a metal roof um and then the interior and the floor has like a steel frame and then the plywood on it it's not fancy it's just that it gets things up off the ground and then just wood wood framing and very very minimal on the interior okay it's a shed it's a big shed yeah yeah oh here you go something like that it's kind of like a shed you put in your backyard only bigger a lot bigger a lot bigger who would oversee the selling of this somebody in the business office we'd arrange it for somebody in the business office and and you know it's not like it would be somebody could come shop every day we're not gonna We're Not Gonna shop every day so we would just you know we would have we'd advertise and we'd say on this day at this time or the second Thursday of every month or you know whatever pick a day and say this during these hours you can come and so one of the one of the people would just be tasked with doing that and by the way that law is very specific about how these it either has to be cash or a cashier's check or a money order we don't take we can't take personal checks and um and right now we can't take plastic so uh until they update that law so or the regulation it's a regulation actually so but there are very strict things with that and we we would make sure that we followed them okay do I have a motion to approve the purchase and placement of this shed I make a motion that we purchase and place the shed for excess equipment okay all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki Sheila Burnett I remember having to store 20 sewing machines in my home ec room for many years until we were able to get rid of them and stuff and it is an eyesore at the schools it is an eyesore the custodians always try to put them you know where you can't see them but you can still see them well and and in some cases they're in the Conex boxes that we have and we really have some other things that we need to store in the Conex box it's not something that is Surplus and that we want to get rid of but that we don't need right now yeah and you don't want to take up another classroom for that kind of storage so and and Elena and Estella will be particularly happy because the kitchens all have uh out there back doors they all have some broken and you know damaged equipment and you know that things coming out of the kitchens are not small so it will will look a lot less trashy around our kitchens if we can get some of those things moved item 8.11 annual amendment to contract with Chartwells for Food Service management uh Madam president I don't have the file right in front of me but we've got it to look at here uh each year where as I said earlier we're in the fifth year of the of this contract with Chartwells and so each year we get this renewal amendment when we get the original quote or the original quote at the beginning of the five years there are columns and they say this is what we anticipate for year one year two year three year four year five and of course each year costs change and things change so that's why we have an amendment each year so Cass if you'll move to um I think it's the next page well okay yeah um so this shows you how they calculate um uh this thing so the federal reimbursement and all of that so the bottom line here is one million 797 417.48 so that's what they're anticipating uh that the reimbursement from the Department of Agriculture would be so that becomes their contract and then if you uh uh and then they they break down their costs and those kinds of things and on the next page it tells us what they're guaranteeing us as a total revenue that stays then in our budget now this is um uh Dr Sheila so so you know the Food Service budget is a separate budget it's not tied to mno or Capital it is its own budget and so it's a self-sustaining thing but what it does allow us to do is that when you were looking at that report earlier you saw some things in there that had to do with salaries and and you may have wondered why do we have salaries if we're Contracting with a an outside vendor to do the Food Service it's because we have a purchasing agent who spends a percentage of her time doing that part of the food service yeah procurement thank you and then at each of our sites the secretaries have some responsibilities relative to Food Service so a part of each of those salaries is paid directly from this budget and what that does is it frees up dollars in our m o budget and helps us pay for all-day kindergarten since the state does not fund all-day kindergarten so um you know and and um and and sometimes you do that with you know with we do that with some other things too where we split fund some salaries any questions I need a motion to approve the annual Amendment to the contract with Chartwells for Food Service management I'll make a motion that we approve the annual Amendment to the contract with Chartwells for Food Service management I'll suck at that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski aye Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rustin aye Bob rosarzicki hi Sheila Burnett I do want to compliment you guys um I heard nothing but good things even the kids yeah are saying that good stuff so thank you thank you item 8.12 contract for instructional empowerment a continuation of professional development Madam president and board members particularly those of you who were there even even for a short period of time when our schools our school folks were working on the fish bones witnessed the folks who were here from instructional empowerment helping with that process kind of holding everybody's feet to the fire if you will in terms of asking those why questions and uh and encouraging them to some uncomfortable conversations um and uh and they were on our sites and and then led us with that um what we're what we would like to do is com continue the services with them uh for next year and um uh they are working with us they they gave us first a full-blown plan uh and we knew the cost was way out of anything that we could that we could even dream of doing so they've given us a modified plan and Jen is working on in the grants trying to find some dollars and round up some dollars I have I have committed some dollars in the new budget because I think we need to put our money where our mouths are and academic progress and and Improvement of what's going on for our kids improved outcomes uh is serious but combined right now we don't have 1.5 million dollars and that's a huge figure but I want you to know uh part of what part of what that gets us uh so that you know that it's that there's a reason for that so um for instance uh and I and I'm just going to go through this as quickly as I can so one piece of this process for next year would be school leadership coaching which means that each of our principals has a coach and they did in this process when we did fish bones but they have a coach and the coach could be on site on site actually in the school 48 days during the year nice okay and then there would be 16 days or 16 hours I'm sorry 16 hours of virtual coaching so even when they're not here they're still available in coaching our principals second piece is a model of instruction and uh and so they would do a serious professional development and so we'd be paying for the materials that they would need for that for that those two days of training and then we would have on-site coaching for our teachers um 46 days at middle school and 34 at the other days at the other sites so once again an additional coach an additional person and it would most likely be the people who were here before which is good because our folks really really linked up with you know uh formed relationships with those folks and we'll listen to them so we're talking about a lot of on-site days of coaching I mean this is two and three days a month and then some virtual hours and then they have other resources so for instance one of the things they would work with us on is effective formative assessment of student progress and then they have a data management system to help us take those data and and what do those data mean and how do we react to those data so um the research is very clear that when we provide professional development for for our staff it will only ever work if we're following it up if we're going in classrooms and making sure people are doing it but not just looking to see if they're doing it coaching them and helping them do it and help them get better at it and you all those of you who are Educators in the room have been around long enough to know that that research is real is real research that only about five percent of what we learn when we go someplace and listen to Somebody talk at us actually in actually results in us making changes in our classrooms and in our teaching but that increases significantly when somebody's following up and when we have the coaching component 85 percent of what we learn in that process actually happens in the classroom so we go from five percent to 85 percent when we do that Jen has written uh there's a the governor has a grant that's funding that's from the recovery uh the federal recovery money and uh spent many hours writing as a very complex Grant and I think if I don't misrepresent it would be 250 000 per site 250 000 per site is what we asked for and we could have asked for a lot more but we didn't so if we were to get that funding and then add that to what what she can dedicate from the from Title One and other grants and what I dedicate from the general budget we can meet the 1.5 million for the first year and um and the I think I sent to you in one of the updates a link for you to check out on the data that they've gotten from other other school districts that they've worked with um so I can't ask you to uh to commit us to 1.5 million that we don't have but we need to we need to if we're going to proceed with this we need to have a contract with this company and so what I'm asking you for is approval for us to work out with them a plan that matches whatever money whatever dollars we actually can pull together up to 1.5 million I'd like just to make a comment I've been a chiropractor for 25 years and every Tuesday morning at six in the morning I have a mentor or coach call and I do find that my vision and everything is more precise when I have those coach calls and I've got that backing so I think that this is a would be a really good program for these teachers to be involved in so I guess I can make a motion okay I'll make a motion that we should go ahead with Contracting with the instructional empowerment for continuation of professional development and work towards whatever we can with what money we raise all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara sarsicki aye Sheila Burnett on behalf of our of our teachers and our staff and our principals thank you item 8.13 contracts with g-con for district employee neighborhood project is this ever going to get off the ground you know if if you all approve this tonight I'm I'm gonna find a an emoji that's a green flag waving and would be sending it to g-con and sending it to you all all because this is this is 25 months in this process with 25 months of hurdles and whatever um and uh this contract is the attorney has worked with g-con and so this amendment the actual contract is with one GPA that g-con made with that with another school district in the state and then it and then it became part of one GPA and so the rest of us benefit from that contract this is the amendment that applies specifically to us uh and and how we can move forward um and then the second part of this is the actual first piece of action which is getting the engineer and the architect uh busy uh developing some plans for us I will tell you that the folks at g-con are exceptionally excited about working with us on this and that's very refreshing because we part of the reason we've had all of these months of delay is that we could not find uh someone to work with who had the had the correct expertise and was excited about doing this and so uh it's it's with relief and pleasure that I recommend to you that you approve this and so we can move forward and and I will tell you I gave Barb the the wording for the motion because we've got one little thing that that second part that you see at the end which is the pre-construction agreement we need to we we need to make sure that it matches the one GPA contract and I didn't know that that had not happened and so what you're doing is is approving if you will please with that caveat that Mark can look at that he's our project manager can look at those two documents and if they match that you that we don't have to come back for your approval when they you know that they match if they don't match we're going to come back to you could I ask you please for uh Miss palusso to scroll down to article number six having to do with the time frame for the contract that makes me dizzy you got a ways to go girl you're in five okay there you go now keep in mind that originally when I sought your approval for this we're talking about this is a um a job order contract and so what you were originally approved was a job order contract for uh for uh 4 million I think we did four million dollars this project itself is not 4 million what that authorizes that you authorized a couple months ago is that if we like the work that they do in this project that that we could without having to go out to bid for some other big project that we might have in the works have them continue with some other project and of course we would still bring that back to you for a dollar amount but it means we would not have to go out and do an RFQ we would not have to go search for another another contract with one of the consortiums it just allows us to you know to cut through those things and continue to to meet timelines Fred I don't think this has a very specific timeline but we we are very restricted on this particular project it must be done to whatever can be done by September 30th of 2024.
and that was that was Mike yes concern Dr Stewart is that uh you know when I was in construction part of what I did was Administration and you know one of the keys is tying tying the the contractors or subcontractors into a time frame yes because uh you don't want to get in a position and you know this I'm sure as well as probably everyone here does that you don't want to be in a position where you approach the the due date and they're not even half done right and we've made that very clear to g-con from the you know from the beginning of our discussions with them about three months ago and they are very confident first of all we we know all that infrastructure needs to be done but then once they've done their pricing and things however many houses they tell us that they can get done in that time they will have done and we already we already know that it's not going to be the number of houses that we originally wanted primarily because the cost of building things and building materials have has escalated so much um but they will be once they've done this pre-construction part then they will be giving us here is what we'll do for this amount of money and it will be done on that day and I'm sure that we will be informed about all of that absolutely absolutely I'll be ecstatic to inform you and you you feel good about these people I I feel very good about these folks they they are excited and and they have a good reputation so you know that's that's a real uh that's a real plus what is their home base please Phoenix Phoenix area one of the suburbs I think they're going to have on-site project people yes are you good yes okay can we have a motion please okay I moved to approve the g-con contract as to legal form with final approval of the attachments being determined by the project manager without further presentation to the board I'll suck at that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton aye Barbara zarzicki hi Sheila Burnett item 8.14 top five priorities for asba political agenda for the 2024 legislative session Madam president and board members I'm I'm I'm going to get on soapbox a little bit here historically the board has not uh has not submitted to asba many ideas and in the last couple at least since I've been back none but I really would like for you to consider uh putting some forth this time I gave you some suggestions in the notes uh that you can see in the in the board docs agenda um simply because these are some important things for for us as a district you all know we're funding all-day kindergarten and uh you know as my and and we need to do that but the legislature needs to commit to all-day kindergarten one of the things that the legislature did this past year is now require a kindergarten test for a program that is not a required program in Arizona kindergarten is not a required program in Arizona it is not so parents can choose not to put their children in kindergarten they can choose to enroll them in first grade at the age of you know after they've turned six you know if there's before the cutoff date so here's a program that is not even required and is only half funded and now there's this required test and it takes it's a one-on-one test with kids and it takes about 45 minutes so maybe the maybe the flip side of that is not only saying to asba please fight for all-day kindergarten funding but also get rid of the dang test because it's it you know it's not going to give us really useful data either so that's one um Jen would know better than I so they're going to have they're either an app on their on their phone or their child cage showing conferences and skills but it's anything from like language acquisition skills skills not necessarily just like can you write your name and actual observations as a student form a complete sense and this is 45 minutes per child right so just want to do it again if you wanted to see this require us to do to do the first 40 days of a child's enrollment what would be the point of it yeah and for every minute that you were doing this assessment you you're doing one-on-one so the rest of your class what does the rest of your class doing number one number two this is 45 minutes for each kid that is taking away 45 minutes of instruction yeah that's ridiculous yeah so I mean it's the other one of the other things I listed for you I know because I didn't make my own list but uh is we all know that there is the esa the oh I never remember what those stand for but essentially it's the voucher system and that the uh the legislature expanded that last year or for the current year they budgeted 30 million dollars the cost is already over 300 million dollars this year because they did not put a cap and there is no accountability so anyone who gets the voucher the esa award and they start at seven thousand dollars the average now is over 10 because if you have a student with special needs or some other things then then it goes up incrementally um uh and but there's no accountability so there's nothing in the law that requires either the parents who get the vouchers or the school to which those children are with where those children are enrolled does not have to show how they've spent the money those students do not have to take the state testing wait what do not have to take the state state testing and so there's no way of knowing whether that is a better education system or not and so what I'm saying what I suggest to you is the idea that there probably should be a cap on how much money they're estimating that it will be 500 million next year okay and the state budget is the state budget so it's like our buckets you know it has a bucket so every one of those dollars that that goes you know out to that is a dollar less for public school education we already are very transparent in in how we uh how we spend our money the budget is Public public record and uh and it's audited every year by uh by Auditors and it's available and it's reviewed every year by the auditor General's office um and so uh the the playing field ought to be level the rules you know the same rules should apply and uh and the and the folks uh who are you know who who uh who support the esa uh say that um you know well the education is better they have no evidence they have no data so you know and so don't tell me it's better maybe it is but how are you going to know so you need to assess the the the uh outcomes of those students the same way you assess the outcomes of our students so I'm I'm proposing that you uh request asva to work towards some kind of accountability system uh for that voucher system and uh and perhaps even a cap on it um uh side note on that um there are there are approximately 57 000 students currently uh having uh who have esa's this year 57 000.
54 roughly 54 000 of those students were already in private schools have never attended public schools in Arizona so uh they're now getting this additional seven thousand or ten thousand dollars and they are in families that can already afford to pay for private education so the intent was to open up choice for handicapped children low-income children second language children native children and yet the of the 57 000 only about 3 000 students are those uh so uh you know that that's really frustrating I mean to us in public education that's really frustrating but even if we could level the playing field pardon me New York you go to a pipe private school you pay for it absolute vouchers you don't get Transportation you get nothing you pay for it well and and most of us in public education say that's the way it should be right and uh you know as opposed to tax dollars you know uh okay and that's kind of a moot point because it's been approved by the legislature so at least if it's been approved let's figure out a way to to make the the spending transparent and let's make make sure there's a way for some accountability for student outcomes um so I'm encouraging you on that and then I know I had a third winner right now I can't remember what it was uh aggregate oh the aggregate expenditure limit since this came out and my understanding is that the legislature both houses when they approved the budget one of the one of the one of the things that they agreed to was that they would pass the resolution before they end this session to uh to override the AEL for next budget year that would be amazing if they would do it it is not really a budget item but is one of the things that they have agreed to it will only require them to have resolutions in both houses so I'm hopeful that that won't even be an issue that when we when we approve our budget in July that it will be the real budget and I'm sure you all have some others but those were some recommendations that I had so Dr Stewart if I may so asba on our behalf takes this stuff to the legislators and beats them up until Bobby's them and sometimes and sometimes sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but some what it does Fred is sometimes it just shifts things enough you know it's enough to say okay you know maybe a legislator proposes this bill an asba lobbies for okay but can we change this piece of it you know change the the most noxious part of it or they support it and so they're they're the asba this is a piece of their responsibility to you is to be your lobbying you know on behalf of all the boards in Arizona and so how how do we go about this um what do we just say you vote on some things that you collectively I mean you vote tonight on here here are here are two things we want or here are five things we want and then Cass reports it to asbi asba on your behalf okay well I'm I think the three I kind of like I was just gonna say I think those three that you just talked about her I I do pretty important so the esa thing is is healing to bite the legislature it already has and so I think they're going to have to do something with that and as they take care of aggregate expenditure hey oh yeah but then that's still that will still have to be followed up though with a with a constitutional amendment um but at least it will help us for next year I mean we could we could actually start with a for real budget that I don't have to par oh I'm sorry that I don't have to park you know three million dollars over here that I can't touch um uh you know and then and then hopefully and maybe one of the things you could put relative to AEL is that asba um uh do whatever it takes to help get that referendum on the 2024.
um ballot and with the esa it's also my understanding that parents can apply for this and do homeschool homeschooling yes and still get the seven thousand dollars in that okay yes and no accountability yeah no accountability well there's no accountability for homeschooling no there isn't no but now they could get seven thousand dollars and still not be accountable and we've been trying to fund all the kindergarten for forever it was funded for two years when Janet Napolitano was the governor and then we hit that you know the recession the bubble broke and and the legislature took it out so yeah we we had a couple of years of the full funding but yeah but you're right from for years and years and years on both sides of those two years um I think we should direct Cassie to submit these to asba do we need to vote on this okay let me make a motion yeah I ask Cass a question if if someone rattles off a whole list of things you can pick it all up from a recording from this session okay not a precedent if I'm me I'd like to make a motion that uh our school district requests asba as our legislative representative or Ally if you will to do five things number one would be if we truly value our children's education to make kindergarten mandatory I don't understand why they would want to eliminate an opportunity or not provide an opportunity to educate the future of this country number two I would instruct or like asba to lobby for all day kindergarten and the funding for that number three I would like to ask asba to eliminate the uh pointless kindergarten testing number four I would like to ask aspa to um do something to wear on the 2024 ballot we can address the esa situation to include language that there must be accountability if someone is getting State Monies for the purposes of educating their children they should have to document it it's um an example I can think of is is I can't just tell IRS I've got five hundred thousand dollars in expenses for my mortgage this year I have to prove it they're not going to take my word for it and we we shouldn't have to take uh the word of parents who are receiving our money that they're spending it appropriately so I would I would encourage that number five I would like to and I'm not sure I may need some help on the language here I would like to ask asba to encourage our our legislators to override the AAL for next year is that the proper way I think that's already happening but what you might say is that they put it on that they get the referendum on the on the 2024 ballot to change the Constitution and I would have been my my request to to include that that's all I got it Fred thank you yes that was good I'll second that motion uh well we really don't know yeah what about can we add something to the motion because there is one thing that I think that um we talked about that we don't get any outcomes from these what was it es a to include that we would like some type of assessment to see the outcomes just like we have with our other students and the public school system there we go okay do we have a second last second then okay all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki hi Sheila Barnett item 9.1 future topics is there anything that you guys actually on the agenda we had a long agenda too we did I'm sorry yeah I'm a little tired we're usually done by about 7 30.
I'm really sorry seeing none we're just going to go to item 9.2 upcoming board events I think the one the major one is for us to be at uh promotion promotion yeah um I think that's the big one well the other thing is that you you have on the you have the training coming up and you also and we also have the um of the uh strategic planning so you've got three big things coming up fairly soon June 8th 9th 15th there you go okay [Laughter] somebody's gonna what'd you say 8th 9th and 15th 8th 19th well the eighth and 9th we're in Flagstaff 19th the 15th were here yeah yeah okay all right and you're here on June uh June 1st also is it yes during the day yes 9 to 11. okay um date and time and location for future meetings I think that the not the normal meeting date is June 15th um but you all are going to be gone so I moved it to the following week so yeah well it's the 15th on here and it's in pink so I guess our next meeting will be June 15th at 5 30 P.M okay unless anybody has other conflicts so do they have any other conflicts okay I need a motion to adjourn the regular meeting I make a motion when you join the regular meeting I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton aye Bears sir ziki hi Sheila Burnett and you know what I think that how many pins are empty I don't know but my hand hurts yeah I have a stamp I don't even write my name anymore I have a stamp I would have brought it with me [Music] foreign [Music]
I'm white disgusting enough Communications this is to welcome you all to our new location we'll see how it works so far so good I would like to welcome you all to the awarded scholarship presentation for the Savannah High School senior class of 2023. today's ceremony begins with several Awards our first award and our first presenter is Nita Jones and she is presenting the Chamberlain Rush Memorial award foreign look at you guys here we are congratulations and we only have one lady with a broken foot here so far that's good that's good he waited till the end of the year great well my words always have Quotes no you don't know this these people know them they go oh no she's going to talk a long time do quotes I say two words be kind and believe you go a long ways in that department and it's never too late to be kind Too Young Too Old be kind and this Chamberlain Rush award we've been given this out 28 years this man was from Ohio Mr Chamberlain he was 90 when he came to create this award he rode the bus he wrote he had two canes he walked with and he earlier in his life he had dated Miss rushed from Sudan he fell in love with Miss Rush she doesn't school teacher and she he fell in love with sedan he loves sedan so we decided he decided to give this award to people that was kind and believed and this this is a word for what you've accomplished already not for something you're going to accomplish in the future so we have two this year and it's for also people that you see around town doing things Community work is good and we want you all to always think about coming back to sedan after you do your life through your your education on your work or whatever we're always here waiting for y'all to come back remember that so this is also I've got two here I'm going to give today and it is let's give this one to Mallory Draper this one is for what she I think you've done wonderful with your mental health thing no I think we all need that a lot in the world and this is it comes with a hundred dollars to do whatever you want to honey thank you now this other one this is a man that he plays football basketball baseball and he um he he was practicing Golf out at our place several of the boys practice golf I see him back there hanging in the back there next year you know and I don't think try to knock the ball the golf ball over the pond well if we drain that Palm Sunday it's going to have a whole score of golf balls they don't always make it over the pond and that person is code of Blankenship and I don't see code of Blankenship anywhere because some of you call code on the phone I've been sleeping tell him he just won a hundred dollars thank you very much [Applause] you guys have your phones good job it's finally sunk in representing the kshsaa citizenship Awards Carla cherico yeah um this year we have a boy and a girl that both received the Citizenship Award in order to receive this award it is for excellence as an exemplary young citizen who has demonstrated in a marked respect for Country assumed responsibility for improving school and community and has shown reverence for life this year's Awards go to miss Melody Holt [Applause] thank you foreign [Applause] I'll be recognizing the students who completed the Kansas Board of Regents Kansas scholar curriculum in order to do this these students have taken four units of English four units of math four units of or three units of science which included chemistry and physics three units of social studies and two units of foreign language so they had to complete this to qualify and then those students who had a high enough act were also designated as Kansas Scholars and can apply for a scholarship so the first student is Abigail Bauer [Applause] JC Cummings [Applause] Levi Dell [Applause] Melody Holt [Applause] Ashley Kuna [Applause] and our Kansas State scholar who had a high enough Act is Madison Holt [Applause] Madison of course has to bear with everybody in making all the foot jokes Mrs Williams is not good at telling the two of them apart never has been I don't know why so you guys went to you didn't have to go that far I would have figured it out eventually okay into our scholarships presenting our first scholarship candy Valley Electric is Dan Hubert good morning I've got two Awards over picked uh both of them were real proud of Ashley kuna and Valerie Drake [Applause] thank you Jim and Eileen Houdini Memorial Scholarship is presented by Gary cuday congratulations I'm sure this last year seemed like a long time for me that I was just here a week ago so it seems goes fast I want to First say it's a great pleasure and honor to be able to support my home Community with these scholarships these many past years in the name of my mother and father it's an honor to remember and honor them to me and hopefully this will go on for we had quite time this year but what we had so many applicants but the problem was it was Madison Mallory Melody Madison and it was rather difficult to keep keep demonstrated so with what time but first scholarship goes to a young lady who will attend Pittsburgh state and attempt to get a degree in public relations our agreement [Applause] next up we have again lady who is again with the Pittsburgh state to preserve to pursue nursing developing holes [Applause] third up is another young lady who is going to Costco Community Junior College to seeking a degree in medical lab technician Madison hurt [Applause] and last but not least a young lady who is going to Pittsburgh state seeking the degree in nursing home [Applause] scholarships were also awarded to Anna Spradlin Andrea Sears Caitlin Williams Joshua beaver Haley Williams and congratulations darling [Applause] presenting the Les Davis Blue Devils scholarship Cahill we went out of order there at the government okay it is my great honor to present the Les Davis Blue Devil scholarship of course I knew coach Davis for many years as a student and um and worked with him the scholarship was established for Les Davis who was a Blue Devil coach for 38 years coach Davis believed that a relationship with God family and school were vital to being a well-rounded person this scholarship is available to any graduating and sedan high school student they must participate in a sports for a full season at shs they must plan to attend a post-secondary institution during the upcoming school year it's a one-time Award of a thousand dollars this year's recipient of the Les Davis scholarship is a young lady who has literally played every sport for four years volleyball basketball softball and the last Davis scholarship this year goes to JC Cummings [Music] [Applause] or County Mental Health scholarship is presented by Carla cherico or County Mental Health Awards a 250 scholarship to a graduating senior at Sudan who has made great achievements at their high school and is planning to continue their education this year I am proud to present the Four County Mental Health scholarship to miss Mallory Draper [Applause] foreign breakfast scholarship Bob Miller okay good news for all of you here even the ones sitting down to stand this is Mrs Jones and I had something in common wheelchair uh but I went down to the motorcycle rally this last weekend and somebody down there in that Arkansas Area gave me this cold so I could only talk for 30 minutes this morning I said 45.
okay well congratulations seniors um you've made it through uh I do want to just touch uh first of all I want to I like to get out of this shout out to Mrs Williams because I believe Mrs Williams puts in a lot of efforts for you okay for the students for this small school this small town so thank you Mrs Williams [Applause] you know I I want to um well I graduated here in 1979. I know that was a long time ago I know you can't think that far back um next year I'll have a 45-year reunion and uh I I thank my God that he brought me here to Sedan Kansas back when I was 10 years old and uh and that's it this was the place for me and uh I want to read to you a scripture Jeremiah 29 11. and I think it fits for me but it also fits for you in a different story or different setting for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future and I believe that the almighty God gave me the hope and the future in Sedan Kansas when I was 10 years old and I thanked him for it all the time so and I want you all to consider that also okay um my daughter tells me dad you can't preach all the time and I'm not but the whole purpose is possible plant a mustard seed okay that's what I'm that's what I'm here for um this is the community men's prayer breakfast uh scholarship we've been giving this out for a long long time I can't tell you how long um but God has always provided the funds for it and um and and we are we are uh very very blessed to be able to give to in this in this round I want to share one last thing with you before um I tell you who you are who gets it who gets there a man stopped and I only owned built right building downtown y'all don't even know where that's at but the old-timers out here does um and there's a man stopped in there one day and and the zimmermans used to have an antique shop there and he stopped in and serviced them with some different stuff and so forth and on the side of his truck he had us a um a little old magnetic sign and I took notice of it and I'm like hey that's a really cool sign and he reached over in the seat and got me one he said put one on your truck and I've had it on the truck ever since then I know it's real small but hopefully somebody notices it at any given point in time wherever I'm at it says this if you miss knowing me you miss nothing if you miss knowing Jesus Christ you miss everything so I wanted to share that with you and I and with that being said um we're given two uh scholarships there this year uh 250 dollars one time [Music] and the two girls that uh that wrote this letter uh wrote these letters of the application I've I've read these things for years and years now and I believe they're the finest letters I've ever read and and I and I thank you for for putting in your letter just what God meant to you okay that's a that's a major plus one of the things that are that we give the scholarships on is the emphasis on service to the church okay and a lot of times the applications we get don't even mention that so that's a little tough so anyway for this year we have Madisonville and Melody home now okay that was Madison in her acting like and Madison don't get up I'll walk all the way over there and bring it to you presenting the Blue Devil Foundation scholarship Jill Gray everyone congratulations it's an honor to be here I'm an 89 graduate at sedan high school and it's nice to see some people grew up and Heather and Carolyn and I went to high school with so this is always nice the Blue Devil Foundation was created in 2020 as an independent non-for-profit organization dedicated to serve the students at USD 286.
the goal in the foundation is to bridge the gap between student needs and District funding to ensure that our students have opportunities that might otherwise not be available in a small school district we are pleased to be able to offer one thousand dollar scholarships to continue to Gap the bridge for graduating seniors who plan to attend vocational or technical schools learn a trade or enter the workforce the Blue Devil facial Blue Devil Foundation is awarding two scholarships this year after graduation our first recipient will be attending Coffeeville Community College to study medical laboratory technology and I will side note if you need a job when you get out of school call me let's work something out congratulations Madison hurt [Applause] um our next recipient will also be attending Community or Coffeeville Community College juries to complete the requirements for a welding certificate and oddly enough if you ever need a job too call me congratulations Pedro Davila [Applause] thank you okay these guys may not have used their cell phones it's somebody back there did Nina would you like to come make your presentation because your gentleman's in the back somebody told them come up was you asleep no no oh well pardon yes I told him the story about the dolphin but you missed all of it it was really good but this is for being kind you're always kind and believing right you wouldn't like you wouldn't want to argue with me would you okay well we congratulate you with the Chamberlain Rush award and in this you get a hundred dollars for what you've done being kind and believe congratulations [Applause] presenting the FCA scholarships Sarah Hill okay and why have you all here one last time I just wanted to say you guys have been such an awesome class and it's been so great getting to know all of you you will be terribly terribly missed by all of us so congratulations on all of your awards today and graduation tomorrow um so I'm gonna take this time um I'm here on behalf of the Stan Fellowship of Christian athletes um and take time to congratulate two recipients of this award um your dedication to SCA leadership skills and demonstration of Godly characteristics has set you apart and made you worthy of this recognition you've demonstrated commitment by regularly attending Wednesday night group activities and Thursday morning devotion uh Thursday morning breakfast meetings you've like group devotions prayers help with clean up and set up for FCA activities beyond your contributions to SCA you've also displayed leadership qualities at school in sports and outside of school your good sport sportsmanship on and off the field being coachable athletes and team players and explaining to kindness towards all students are all examples of the great principles that you live by congratulations to Madison and Melody Holt for books for receiving this award sedan FCA wishes you all the best in your future [Applause] thank you I am proud to recognize the winner of the SDK chapter Delta waterfowl scholarship every year when I receive scholarship notices through my email I forward them out to the kids and basically say if it applies to you apply for it so I never really know um if they do or not unless they win so we did have a student who was awarded a 500 scholarship she has to apply for it obviously and she wrote an essay about how the outdoors had impacted her and so I am pleased to recognize she's already received her scholarship and if she would please stand Ashley kiman thank you just recognize that their annual banquet may be in March and I believe she's the first one we've never had a student apply or win them so presenting the Limerick Ranch trust scholarship is Sarah Hill okay I am pleased to present the Lambert Ranch trust scholarship this scholarship has been established through the Ranch Estate which operated for many years as lemmer brothers just west of humans these scholarship funds are intended to help graduating seniors from Sudan High School continue their study and work toward an advanced degree from any type of educational institute Institute it is my pleasure to award scholarships to Melody holds [Applause] Mallory Draper Madison holds [Applause] JC Cummings [Applause] Madison hurt [Applause] tayden Tyndall and Cody Nation [Applause] yeah presenting the Madeline root Memorial Scholarship the Travis Memorial Scholarship and the Bob render scholarship is Kathy gray representing Legacy Foundation Legacy Community Foundation strives to create a stronger future for our area research has demonstrated that one of the best ways to invest in the future is to support the education of our young people I'm happy to represent the many donors that have come together and establishing funds to support scholarships totaling a hundred and thirty four thousand dollars this year for our students the Madeline Ruth Memorial Scholarship was established in memory of Madeleine rude long-time out in Kansas resident and supporter of higher education it is to be awarded to a worthy sedan high school graduate or graduating senior or they meet that plans to attend college today I am awarding to and they will go to Madison hurt [Applause] um the Fred and Betty Travis Memorial Scholarship is made for Fred and Betty Travis longtime Educators in Chautauqua County Kansas this scholarship is open to all sedan high school graduates however priority is given to the students entering the field of Education students May reapply for this award on a year-to-year basis today I am awarding five Abigail Bauer JC Cummings [Applause] Melody Holt [Applause] Mallory Draper [Applause] and Madison Holt [Applause] Robert Warner lived in southeast Kansas his entire life having never married God established the scholarship with the savings he deliberately set aside over his 36 years as a public school music teacher 21 of those years he taught Karen Savannah his intention was to contribute to four years of college for one student from each graduating class the reality has exceeded his dream there are currently 25 students receiving this scholarship and today we are adding one more Cody Nation [Applause] presenting the First Baptist Church scholarships Pastor Mark Davis good morning congratulations to all of you I'm here today because many years ago there were seven families of First Baptist Church that went together and created an account to supply scholarship funds to the seniors here but it's not just to the seniors it's to it's a renewable scholarship so each year that you continue in your further in your education you can reapply and have the possibility of receiving fund to help as you continue I'd like to recognize those families that set this up and they are the fadeless Floyd's funks Joanne Greer Nobert Lloyd Lacey Reyes and Elsie trauer those are people that felt education was extremely important and they knew by furthering your education that you had a good chance of being a very successful citizen in the country the First Baptist Church will hold a special service honoring you on August the 6th at 10 30.
and everyone was invited I'll be handing out envelopes here in a moment and then leave his envelopes gives you the information that you need to know location time place and most importantly how much money the scholarship is going uh so if you have questions call me should be most of the information should be in this envelope but there may be a question that you might have so feel free to call you this year and the First Baptist Church gave out over eight thousand dollars in scholarships and today we're here to recognize JC Cummings [Applause] thank you Frankford [Applause] lead by now [Applause] Melody [Applause] Madison Burke [Applause] foreign [Applause] live and have a very successful life if you ever meet us we're there for you [Applause] presenting the FFA booster club scholarship John Wells thank you more than everyone everybody's sunburn okay no no anything like that it still hurts but okay so uh good morning on behalf of the sedan F5 booster club uh I'm here to announce the winners of 370 750 scholarships to a graduating senior the FFA boost Club was organized in 2018 to help support and Advance FFA members with the belief that leadership and service is the foundation of the agricultural industry this year's recipients are Ashley Puna foreign Abigail Bauer [Applause] and Danielle now [Applause] thank you presenting the Elevate Bank scholarship Trish stratabush well I made it here you go so the Elevate Bank academic scholarship formerly known as the First National Bank of Savannah academic scholarship is to be awarded to two worthy graduating seniors or the amount of five hundred dollars which we will give the first half first semester in the second half um recipients must be in the top 10 of their class and must mean a few following criteria um some of that would be like scholarship probability of continuing education leadership initiative dependability and a few other things um we had a great group of applicants this year scholarship committee had a difficult time deciding um and if I was supposed to go to the bank I would have given you off but so however the two that were selected the bank Fields will represent and are very worthy of that scholarship so it is my honor to give Mallory Draper and Madison Holt [Applause] presenting the shs music booster club scholarship and the Sharon Katie Walton Memorial Scholarship is Rosie Sweeney congratulations kids yeah I had the pleasure of watching you through a lot of years and it's a joy to see you guys grow up and become the young adults that you are I've sat here looking at the board that says once a Blue Devil always a Blue Devil I didn't grow up here but I feel like I've still got blue blood in me and it's been a joy to to be part of city in high school and I hope you guys have those fond memories too Bob I thought well my 50th is in two years and it's just hard to believe time will fly but make the best most of it once you guys have so um I'm gonna go ahead and get both of these scholarships together the sedan booster club was created back when I took over the band and I don't remember that year 2001 too somewhere in there but they hold fundraisers mainly a tailgate party and then during football season in a potato bar in the springtime at a basketball game to raise money for this scholarship it's a 250 dollar one 125 for each semester and um the Sharon Katie Walton Memorial Scholarship was created by Dale Walton after his wife Katie Walton had passed away and this was a couple who would contact me every year at the beginning of school and say do you have any grandkids that need anything do you and then if we ever did a trip they always call up and go is there a kid who doesn't have enough money that we can help with and I would usually tell them well there's this or there's that and they would drive in town and give me a check that same day they cared enough and they wanted to keep the program going so it's my honor to present a kid that I've watched throw up and encourage through the years when I was teaching and watching think through band and so both of these scholarships the Katie Walton scholarship is 500 250 for each semester and so Cody Nation these both go through [Applause] thank you presenting the sunflower Association of educational office professionals Sue killing good morning class and congratulations to all of you we are proud of you we hope you go out and see the world and we'll decide to come back home we always be welcome we have two scholarships to be in today um these are 375 this year we sell nuts in the fall to raise money so it's a Nutty scholarship I guess but anyway I am pleased to present this one to Madison hurt [Applause] and the other goes to Danielle Bell [Applause] I want to remind you seniors to use your movie ticket to the Greg and have a concession on us we'd like to see them and juniors remember we can help you with your community service at the great theater too thank you foreign [Applause] the John and Shirley Laster Memorial Scholarship Chris Brown bush so I'm helping out the daughter of John and Shirley and so I will read her letter to all of you guys today gives me great joy to honor the memory of my parents John and Shirley Laster for their contributions to the community of Sudan and the students in Unified School District 286.
together as Educators and counselors they've dedicated nearly 60 years of their lives to expanding the horizons of thousands of young people in South for those who do not remember John and Shirley please indulge me with a few words to introduce them to you John Laster grew up on a farm in southeast Oklahoma he enlisted and served three years in the Army infantry during the Korean War during his time in Korea he saw a live combat five times and was decorated each time for his courage Upon returning home he utilized the GI bill to earn not only a bachelor's degree in education but also a master's degree and an education specialist degree from at Oregon State University he then began his career teaching business classes at Sudan High School and serving as an Adjunct professor at the nearby community colleges and Independence in Coffeyville later in his career he became the guidance counselor at shs where his greatest joy was Helping Seniors find their way to a post-secondary education Shirley Laster was born in southeast Oklahoma where she met and married my dad in 1953.
she completed her teaching degree from Pittsburg State University and went on to become fifth and sixth grade science and math teacher for sedan Elementary later she would assume the role of homeroom teacher for room 5A or for 30 years she worked to bring out the best in every fifth grader who walked through her door a true Pioneer in the early 80s she spearheaded the introduction of computers into the Elementary School classrooms and she was named Master teacher for her efforts for 50 years she enjoyed the camaraderie and respect of her fellow professionals as a member of Delta Kappa Gamma a sorority for teachers in 1995 she was nominated for Kansas teacher of the year and honor which she has referred to as the greatest professional distinction of her life so today along with the generous assistance of Trisha ratty bush from Elevate Bank she is proud to honor four students this year for the John and Shirley last year Memorial Scholarship and those winners are Pedro Davila tayden Tindall Madison heard and JC Clements [Applause] thank you presenting the Colton Chase Memorial Scholarship is Clint Williams congratulations you guys uh under prayer speech I don't have anything to read off of my ex teachers that's kind of scary but uh Colton was a great friend of mine uh he loved sedan he loved being a blue devil and I know he'd be very proud to help and give something to somebody that's graduating so this year's goes to Madison hole I'll let you walk up here presenting the sedan Chamber of Commerce scholarship Raylene Davis good morning everyone I'm glad to see you all here and congratulations on a job well done class of 2023 very exciting time for you as you go out into the world and I wish you the very best on behalf of the chamber with that being said I want to award the scholarship today to Mallory Draper [Applause] presenting the Ellis Foundation scholarship Cahill you're doing great we'll have to I'll come see you guys for a loan it's going to be great the Ellis Foundation is a foundation that was established as a non-profit charity by Danny Ebola Ellis in memory of their daughter Kathy Lynn Ellis Adrians Kathy was a mushless teacher influenced by many lives before passing away of breast cancer in 1998.
since then the Ellis Foundation has committed over 20 million dollars in scholarships for deserving students under the direction of Kathy's brother Chris and his wife Catherine the Ellis Foundation scholarship has grown with addition of outside sponsors including many local donors who are committed to helping students from their Hometown achieve a college education the Ellis College Scholars benefit not only from financial assistance but from a mentoring program designed to help support you as Future Leaders if you want more information you can visit their website at the ellisfoundation.org these eight thousand dollar scholarships support each student for four years so that's going to be great four years you're going to reapply and have this scholarship we're plait very pleased to announce there were two scholarships from the Ellis Scholars Madison Holt will receive the rooted in rural education scholarship and Melody hope will receive the recruited and Rural education scholarship congratulations [Applause] presenting the chapter DC peo scholarship is Jill Gray peo is a philanthropic organization where women celebrate the advancement of women this is done through Sisterhood scholarships grants and Loans to motivate women to achieve their highest aspirations we are pleased to announce Mallory Draper as this year's recipient [Applause] presenting a mark Mendenhall Memorial Scholarship is Tim Hills congratulations you guys and all your accomplishments you have to be proud of yourselves we look forward to watching on the next chapter of your lives to see where you're headed Mark Mitten all's scholarship was first awarded in 1973 in a memory of Mark who was a class that was a classmate of mine it was one of my best friends he lost his life in the motorcycle accident and a sophomore year of high school as in 72 so I'll have my 50th here in a couple years too the scholarship is administered by The Epiphany Episcopal Church scholarship will pay a thousand dollars per semester for four years as long as the recipient stays in good standing in his enrollment School scholarship committee bases this decision on numerous criteria but a couple of the main criteria are scholarship leadership character and the probability of continuing your education this year we'd like to award our scholarship to the young lady that is planning on attending Pittsburgh State University and majoring in nursing which looking at her foot it's a good thing Miss Madison hope thank you presenting the Tanner Miller Memorial Scholarship Nate Thompson on behalf of the Miller family a scholarship will be awarded in the memory of tan Miller he was a 2007 graduate of our school seniors ever forget to keep moving forward no matter the difficulties in your life there will always be someone somewhere to help you through the difficult times seek help and never give up the Tanner Miller Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to Mallory Draper [Applause] congratulations presenting the Russell Family Foundation scholarships Jeannie Beeson good morning and congratulations to you all the Russell Walters scholarship is a family that lived here for many years and they used to have an airport so Tim anybody would remember that but yeah well Alice Walters became my adopting grandmother so that's why I'm present this today but they really believed in in education and they wanted to share they the Russells had no children so you're all their children so anyone who applies it is a renewable scholarship so and it can be a very generous scholarship so don't hesitate any Juniors to apply if you you qualify for that scholarship and I've just had you come up one at a time Abigail powers [Applause] Madison hurts I'm just hearing Madison so many times that I can get them all mixed up now Madison home JC Cummings [Applause] I'm not good at this can you tell Mallory Draper [Applause] and Melody Holt [Applause] time you guys first of all congratulations to all of you on all of your accomplishments not only today but everything that you've accomplished throughout High School and we look forward to what you're going to do with your future um all of you please make sure you check your award letters carefully for the explanation of procedures to receive your money most Awards contain Provisions where you must contact the donor or the sponsor and bring proof of enrollment and or semester grades several scholarships also have renewal capabilities and receipt and procedures if you have any questions please contact me I will get you into contact with any of these presenters here today here's a summary of today's Awards we have 26 scholarship donor organizations 12 students from the class of 2023 received at least one of today's scholarships students have also received scholarships from the universities they have chosen to attend please stand if you have received an academic athletic or music scholarship for next fall you have happy birthday [Applause] and here's why I really want the Juniors to attend the total amount awarded today was over a hundred and eight thousand dollars and this is in local money this is not including the scholarships that these students have stood up um and the receipt because of Athletics refusing this amount does not take into account any renewal opportunities this was just the amount given today our presenters today represent the generosity of Chautauqua County their families and organizations have chosen to invest in the class of 2023.
the presenters today represent those generous individuals and organizations please join me in giving them a round of applause thank you a final congratulations to all of today's award and scholarship recipients congratulations and best wishes to all of the members of the class of 2023 a reminder that graduation exercises will be tomorrow at 10 o'clock right here in the gymnasium this concludes our senior Awards and scholarship presentation for 2023 thank you for attending foreign [Applause]