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um I was as you all know as as folks trickled in the kids uh were routed into the cafeteria where there was a variety of stem activities there um parents went into the auditorium where they saw a presentation from carara um I stood at the back of the auditorium at at best count I there was some flow coming in and out and people going but at at at count I saw about 60 parents probably at Peak and then I think we had at Peak about a hundred kids um in the cafeteria so uh and I know you guys had some some sign in sheets and whatnot but that's I think that was pretty close to your count as well and uh uh we've had some great feedback about the session um we know the kids just had a lot of fun doing the different stem activities and I even know that the teachers were were jazzed to be able to sort of show off some of the the the fun activities and curriculum to to uh you know students that weren't the conventional you know high school or middle school students so uh there was just a real positive reception uh I know we had a real positive reception in the auditorium um we had translation uh devices available uh Lori boros was in the back uh doing real-time translation un style so everybody could have the the ear sets and um and here Cara's presentation um and overall I think it's it's a great um sort of blueprint that we can use if if not all are certainly in part um you know as as we'd mentioned there there was some significant costs associated with this one we wanted the first one to sort of come out of the Gates Strong so we did have food you know there was a lot of teachers there that you know were working on Saturday and and some of those folks had to be paid um so I think there's there's variations we can on this theme that we can do um that would that would you know bring out just as many folks but um but keep cost down for the district as well so just some general Impressions I I mean I I'll Kate if you want to open it up to the floor we can we can get some other feedback sure uh from board members who were there um Julie I know you were there miss Cooper you were there as well um I was there uh I think that was it from one was here yeah she's not on this call so I just want to open this up to the folks who are here um just for their Impressions on my end I think it went extremely well I wasn't expecting um I was part of the event myself because I was making craft um some of the um some something that the teachers put on on the students so I had a lot of fun uh I think is something that I can all a board members should be um motivating everybody to keep on doing because um I have really good feedback from parents so on my end it was fantastic can you come in kitchen with me and going to go get a c thanks for the feedback Julie um I I'll offer a little bit as well um I thought that the event was really well organized um you know I um was very impressed with uh the way that uh Dr me's team you know sort of helped um parents as and greeted parents as they were coming in the door and made sure that the kids were moved over to uh the activity areas and then gave a little guidance to the parents about what was going to happen the teachers that were there doing uh curriculum activities um were really engaging the kids uh the kids had to be talked out of leaving at the end of it which is always um you know something nice to see uh the kids enjoying being in school and enjoy learning even on a Saturday um so I thought that was really great uh you know Dr casmiro did a great job um bringing forward some really Vital Information for parents um and I you know I think that that's at the root of this conversation you know that's really what our Focus has to be not that I I am very grateful for all of the structure that allowed that conversation to happen but I think really what what our focus is is how do we get a messaging about the district what we're doing differently um you know what our vision is for moving the district forward and how parents and families can participate in that work um to not only benefit the district but specifically to benefit their students and the learning process that they have are going through so um you know my my hat is off to the entire team um I really thought it was a very um well structured event um and and a lot to bring parents in um and families in to uh learn some more about the ways in which we have to partner if I could just add a little bit to to the day um you know I definitely want to than you know once we sent out and this is just more feedback on that made me think about how we communicate with our parents um you know know we originally you know we were like okay we'll have plan some activities and we went ahead and purchased some typical supplies that we would get for the typical number of students and responses for these types of events and when we decided to take the the invitation to send out to parents um when we decided to make a video invitation instead to accompany that digital invitation and that the personalization um we got more views on that video than we've gotten on almost any other video that we've sent out to parents or any kind of media so and it was forwarded like of bazillion times so I think that that speaks volumes to um a couple of things you know the way that people like to be communicated but also you know um the how our parents are able to understand what's happening particularly our second our our families of you know second language learner family that are uh May struggle to connect with the school system um and and learn so it was wonderful that the family Learning Center staff helped with that those translations and um I did want to get some additional feedback from ly and team to see how those families experien the event did they experience it differently than how we've we're describing the event right from the minute that they were welcomed to come in the door to how they were engaged how the children were engaged and then their understanding of you know of the day um I'm sure once they got onto the onto the the headphones with loudy you know things went went well but I'm curious to see if she got any additional feedback so um we're going to have a a deep brief we we meet on a semi-regular basis with the whole team to understand what's happening with family so that that's going to be an agenda item so that will feedback will inform the next event make sure that the minute folks hit the door that they feel enged and welcomed and that they're in the right place great Mrs Cooper did you want to add anything no I just thought it was a beautiful event and uh I thought the the the parents that I have uh sort of spoken to in going in the auditorium they felt welcome I I know the children enjoy the activity because my grandson couldn't stop talking about it Saturday and Sunday so you know and my granddaughter they enjoyed and I just want to thank the uh superintendent for the beautiful shirts because wearing those it it really did make a difference and so people could look at you and see that you're a part of the Danberry school system and uh I thank her for doing that so you know it was just a beautiful uh U A A Affair I just you know it's hard to get parents job it it really is and especially when they work all week and some work too and then they have small children and to me that that Saturday is their day to do what they have to do and that is to bring their kids that they can drop them off and someone else watch them while they run and do what they their in so you know not only we are dealing with this situation other groups are having the same issue as far as getting pants and far so you know whatever we can come up with to to bring in one or two the next time you're not going to have 100% or 50% when you start an affair like that it's going to grow and grow and grow it takes about four or five years for it to get to the the maximum number that you want so I enjoyed it I think if you tie it to something that the parents need want or enjoy right then I think we'll get we get more engagement and that's why we did the stem component to it because you know why if you're going to come out on a Saturday there has to be something you're going to have your kids with you there has to be something in it for the kids um the other the other ways that we talked a little bit about maybe doing some something else was you know T from a timeline perspective that could be also beneficial so for example around the mid year if we're thinking of doing something at the winter time it doesn't always have to be on a Saturday right um but you can during during the week perhaps maybe it's on a an early release say perhaps it's during the conference time or it's just before conference time but we do something on how to read your child's I ready scores you know getting ready to you know ask those questions like you know how do you how do you interpret this information so you can walk into your par teacher conference prepared and we have it a multilingual event as well and we give the speech again right we go to so we kind of combine those things and we can do the same thing around assessment time in the spring um and and maybe keep some of the activities for the kids a little bit more a little bit more streamlined and simple if you will what got complicated a little bit was the with the food and then it was okay do you have any allergies and we're looking at what we ordered and trying to make sure then how are we going to keep this food separate from the kids in the table and when if they take the food with them to the tables and a student has another allergy so it got uh you know it ramped up pretty quick in a short period of time uh and then of course the number of kids that were coming so there was a lot of last minute adjustments so you know um probably picking a date identifying a date and then being able to plan a little bit more so um I was very thankful for the team across the street the curriculum Center because they were they were like how do we scale an activity and make it rotate in 15 minutes they were over there doing experiments they were measuring chemicals and glue and sticks and Counting out enough cups and making packages and then they ran to the warehouse and they got those books and they packaged up the stuff that we had so they they did great job they were there like 910 o'clock for like the three nights in a row leading up to that event so um you know I they did a great job I was very proud of them and we were very thankful for their efforts yeah and I and I also want to acknowledge and thank an you and your team because you guys did a fantastic job of you know Ju Just the logistics going into all of this and and making sure we were able to keep track of who came in and the dismissal was a whole another piece we had to color code kids so that we knew when the parents came that if their badge was red that the student was in the red group and all these little quirky things that you sort of don't think about sometimes and then you know you you suddenly are in the moment and you say oh we need a solution for this and and an's team was great it's just sort of coming up with these things at a moment's notice and going out and making sure we had all the right colored stickers and all those little things to make it work we could not have done this without the the resource center and and ly and Grace and an and then they even brought their family members we were all scrambling for additional adults at the end so everybody was grabbing family members to help support but it it turn because of that I think it was even even nicer so yeah we got good feedback from the families as well um that have either come in for resources or come in for more information here at the um face Center so um you we'll get those comments written up and and yes Mike I was walking between buildings here we do have the signin sheets and stuff so we have exact numbers we'll get you great thanks well certainly want to thank everybody who um played a role in in making that day happen and um you know on the heels of that conversation um we want to think about how we can continue this momentum from a successful experience there um and again cas's point you know this is sort of an iterative process we're GNA you know maybe not do it the same way every time um and to to Dr shix point as well um you know we're we're always looking for ways to engage with the public and one of those ways uh that um Julie brought to the the board meeting last night was a conversation about how we might meet with uh different housing uh groups um whether that's um you know a u an organization that's attached to a specific um uh housing Spate um or um you know other community organization um that we can reach out to so you know that's that's something that we have talked about doing for a while that would really be you know I think our goal needs to be how do we build a calendar um with these you know and then how do we extend invitations or or um requests to these different groups um and make contact um so I don't know Dr s if you had any thoughts about uh sort of the leading for that or if you wanted board members here to sort of uh get this conversation rolling but I wanted to you first so thanks Kate so so Caren and I sort of talked a little bit and and she alluded to this um just a few minutes ago which kind of you know putting themes in place that kind of Hit the kind of the major events at that time of year so we were thinking if there was a winter one that probably be a good time to address chronic absenteeism going away for the holidays coming back not taking additional days and then of you know of course I think underscoring all these things is continually talking about the academy model and making sure parents understand what that is even if it's something we've heard before even if it's you know a reiteration just making sure people understand it because there's all those different acmis you know we've been staring at these things you know for months and you know and and I still couldn't name them name them all so you know I I think just making sure that Academy is sort of the foundation of it and then in the winter we do something over chronic absenteeism and then if we were to do a spring one again you know the academy is coming and then maybe that one is is the right opportunity to start talking about assessment we have esac assessment how to prepare for that you know what's the significance of it um how do these scores roll up and what do they mean for us and potential funding um you know just all these these sort of different facets of the assessment um world that you know so parents just don't see a score and you know don't have a lot of context for it so I think those are sort of two good anchor points for a winter in Spring um and then I you know I've I've been listening to the board conversation about you know going out to different communities I know there was some talk about that so I I think I would I would look more to the board for you know thinking about where we might do it if if not in a school or you know in a school in a specific Community is it a community center is it a you know a rotary club or a meeting or something you know so I I I would look to to all of you for some guidance on that I have an idea um you know we've never attached this to Kota but that's an event that gets a ton of participation everybody comes out to see their kids artwork right for students artwork so I'm just wondering if we build that into the programming just an idea for the for the spring just um just to think you know we just did a stem event this would be more of an Arts thing uh connection and then you come up with something else just just an idea we don't have to decide anything now but that's a great idea we've never Incorporated that component and that's a huge captive audience that we could tap into you know I'm also thinking about the uh the Project based learning that goes on at the middle school level um with each of those three different um schools you know we do the history uh events and then the science uh the science fairs you know I've um I've gone to to both of those a few times and that might also be an opportunity you know to to bring in some conversation about uh either the topics that that you raised Dr casmiro at this last event or to start you know that start more of those conversations about theem and sort of how that's integrating across the district um that seems like a really good segue so yeah I don't know if that's something we could think about too and there's your sort of academic activity sort of all bundled up into one right yeah that's good Synergy so one of the other things that um I've talked about with a few board members is this idea that um you know we've really seen sort of a transition happened at uh Rogers Park in particular under Dr zita's guidance um the the culture and the climate and that school is very welcoming um and she's really um uh brought forward I think some of the better uh uh ways of operating um with in conjunction with families and and change sort of like the overall perception about rogers's Park um and that that's the kind of um you know leadership and enthusiasm we want to sort of share with uh you know the public and and and spread around our own District in whatever ways we can so that was just another thing that that um you know as we talk about these conversations and we talk about as board members going into different spaces basis um you know coming up with some sort of concrete U examples of the things that are happening in the district um and you know what we can you know what we look to bring from our students what we look to um do in our schools to better not only their experience but um improve sort of like the overall um the overall experience within the community because the schools are part of the community and I think that that sometime sometimes that that gets lost you know if you have a kid in the district in the schools then you know you're sort of on board with that already but if you're part of you know let's say a senior housing area or um you know uh you know you're a couple and you don't have any children in the schools sometimes you forget about why the schools are important to your community and I think being able to go into those spaces and have conversations with folks and remind them that you know the public schools are here you know in service to the community as a whole you know that and and to talk about the concrete ways in which that happens I think could be very helpful um and it might even you know give us an opportunity to get some support from groups that we don't typically see support from great yeah K to to your point I think the important thing for us to do Outreach and you know we're struggling with how to to come up with an effective way to approach that one of the points we hit on was the success that you mentioned with Roger Park and I I agree you know with that I had conversations recently with both Dr Letta and Dr tameera on that it it might be something to think about as we use the terminology the board meeting to Spotlight our school is to have specific schools use the word spotlighted at some events in their school in terms of what the the change has been whatever we want to promote that that's something good something at rers Park may be different than what's at the Broadview school every school is different because it's a different makeup of human beings so that's something we could look at we don't do enough bragging to the public as to how good we are you know we have our presentations at the board meetings I'm not sure how much of that gets promoted or or viewed Etc but if there's a way that we could engage at least that Community relative to that school and Enlighten them and educate them to the success and broaden the strength of of the parent relationship to the school is is the My Philosophy is these schools belong to you the more you're engaged in them the better the school is the better your parent is you may be able to look to do this on over a period of time you can't do it all in one year but over the course of a period of time do some of these events and and then we could always polish him from you know what we see is good and bad a and continue on that that's one thought the other thought in terms of Outreach is to the the points that was last night with regard to Julie and the one previously with regard to I think Teresa extending the imitations had reservations on that but I I tend to think going there we need a specific script so that when we go to these meetings everybody regardless of who goes okay and and it has to be a team effort where we can't have have the same two people or three people or one person attending it's got to be an organized type of situation but saying the same thing it's important that whatever they hear from me whatever they hear from another board member or administrative we're talking about the same issues that the superintendent feels she wants to to uh to eminate and make public and I think once we have that script you know you know we can start with that and then engage in more of a social thing there but to make it a particular point is to let us take the lead thank them for inviting us but this is what we want to to tell you about the school and and then listen to what they have to say or any questions they have and if we can do it in an organized fashion so if we have 11 board members and we get commitment similar to the way you do the expulsion so that you can say that on every you know every event for a a meeting you'll always have one or two board members and somebody from the administration not sure whe we want to bog down the superintendent on everyone but you's got a staff that could share the burden so it's just some thoughts and those are my thoughts on how we can start develop some of these some of these condition I conditions by which we could reach out to the public and get them better acquainted with us so that they can be more you know be more informed as to what you do just just have one more idea if I can add not to long but um you know an an puts together an amazing calendar of events uh for parent training and she does that in collaboration with my CRC staff um um so she does do you know how to read your child score she does do those things in In Pockets across the year um all very relevant topics uh that are very meaningful and I'm just I'm wondering if it might be worth it to you know because parents are all will also only go out to so many events across the across the year so how do we maybe then take some of the things that we have established we have already have an established calendar increase the marketing around it and then bring the board and me into those things that are already sort of calendarized and um if you maybe pre-organized if you will with expertise that's already scheduled to come in and so how do we maximize some of the things that are already in progress with and then have the board come as a show of support to be there with the community to interact with some of those questions and then to have me go to those as well to you know to interact so just another idea um we could probably you know get you a list of that know Ann works very hard on that across the year with the team to organize through the parent training opportunities that she puts together so we could you know rally around some of those really important events as well that's a great idea because it prevents us from tripping over ourselves right in terms of you know too much is too much and if we could just you know work together so we can get out everybody's message and we seem more organized rather than disorganized yeah that's an excellent excellent thought we've we've done that before with um family University uh a few times um where we had board members come and I I think one of the things that's helpful about those kind of situations is I think you know one of the things we struggle with as board members sometimes is you know the appropriate space in which to answer questions from parents and families about what is individual questions they may have um and you know we're we're as a board we're we're supposed to operate as a single unit and the and the chairperson speaks for all of us um but you know each of us certainly has come in contact with parents who have questions or concerns and you know we always sprad that fine line when there's a group of us like we don't want this to turn into a meeting we don't want to cut across each other that kind of thing so one of the things that we did at Family University a couple times and which I would continue doing is to put out um you know either a a a big page or board and then U have a stack of Post-its next to it and to invite parents and families to either leave a comment or to leave a question for the board about something that they need an answer on um and it it serves two purposes not only do we get feedback but it gives parents the space to do that without maybe a direct ation with us that they might find intimidating because at the end of the day we still want to try to bridge that Gap and it's ideal to have conversations with with families but sometimes they're just not ready for that and they they still want to you know they still need an answer or they still want to convey information to us and you know it it also gets around the language barrier a little bit um for those of us that are not um do not speak more than English um it's an opportunity for us back and and you know translate that information and and come up with some information for the parent or or uh for the family member so um I think that's a great idea B basically that's what I'm saying I think we should try to we should try to piggyback on those events um you know I think you know with regard to going to see um you know some of the community groups you know my thought process is more along the lines of uh doing that as as board members and not necessarily um bringing Dr casmiro into that conversation but um I think that that's something that we can continue to talk about um as a group and and sort of see where everybody lands on it but to your point rich I think it's a really good idea to go in there with some prepared information that we're presenting um and not have it just turn into kind of U you know free-for-all and and you know uh be be uh unproductive for what our goal is you had a multitude of people or a number of people everybody's going to express a different opinion and so I think in a form like this is representing the public schools as a board member of it my feeling is and look to the superintendent for advice to say okay you know what are your selling points give us you know give us your sort of elevated speech and we'll carry that out and then see where it goes from there but that'll always engage for the conversation sure leave it just open as the general conversation you're all over the place and you never know what you're going to put your head into yeah that's a that's a really good point so um in terms of figuring out how we brainstorm around this um I think the three big things are um you know creating a calendar of opportunities um and also availability of board members to to participate in different things uh building a list of community organizations that we would like to reach out to or try to um you know participate with and then uh three coming up with sort of like a a set pattern of information and topics that we're going to share when we when we're at these different events so um I think the challenge here for our community relations meetings has always been like we get to the meeting and then it's like okay well you know I I might have some information or a lead here but I need to track it down or um you know we have these different events but we don't have it right in front of us so can we can we think about setting up some Google Documents um that could be shared amongst committee members or even the full board um that would allow people to share information about you know I have contact with this group um and and and can reach you know can reach out to somebody or here's the name of the person that we could reach out to um and then one for you know sort of like a list of uh existing events that we could potentially uh payback on um and then a third uh Google Document for sort of um narrowing down what ideas we want to bring when we uh at different events does that sound okay to folks yeah another way to do this is is it possible to get together formally I mean not formally sorry in person as as a committee and have this out you know sort of face to face and just come up with something as opposed to you know a zoom meeting where I like I'm more of a people person I like the I like the the face to face contacts the conversation that endures that way items that you're talking about just doing it face to face just maybe a little bit more productive than filling out of form and thinking B at the time you know this way you're engaged in that process there so your mind is functioning to to think about that as you're you're discussing it as opposed to when you have some free time just put down some thoughts on it I if I make okay I I think it's a it's a yes and I I think we would probably get it started sort of you know brainstorming and I think we did this a couple months ago or at the end of last year with um we were going to come up with with talking points for the Academy so similar to that kind of use that as brainstorming before we get in together then let's all you know we can get it in person and then you know I can even have some of my my communications folks there too and we can create a web page we can create postcards with QR codes that could be handed out you know just a a sort of variety of things that you could you could take and you know like again just have in the trunk of your car pamphlets for whenever you're going to one of these things and and and it'll all take people right there um we can just have everybody sort of there in the moment sort of creating it in real time and as information changes we can we can update it because it's living on the website and you know not necessarily something we have to go back to the printer and do another run of you know a thousand copies or whatever so yeah that's a very smart idea I like that what do you think Rich uh Al Miss Cooper Julie government favor you know we're able to do anything that would get this thing started and soon as they better my thought is we if we're into October so are you planning another meeting before the holidays we got October November December and we have a lot of um the holidays are coming up are you envision this for 2025 so our next community relations meeting is currently scheduled for November 13th um I would love if by then we could get a handle on what school sponsored events are happening that we could uh participate with um I would love if we could have uh those three Google Documents started so that we can as board members start to put some information down um you know I don't know what we're talking about in terms of starting to attend at different things because I don't know um yet what's out there and I know we also have our own board business to conduct and it you know as we get into the holidays everybody gets very busy um but I you know it would be great if we could use that meeting on the 13th as our in-person sort of like let's look at the information we have let's build on the information that we have and let's figure out you know let's put together a concrete schedule as we approach the end of this year and the beginning of next year so a a more of a workshop session on the 13th [Music] M so we'll have a work cut out to us to have ready by the 13th we have some homework before the 13th that's right okay so and the 13th we do have yeah the community Rel committee uh and then we have a board meeting yeah that being the case it might be a good opportunity to have it in person prior to the the board meeting so it works out well works out great yeah Mike how does these that Google doc work is that something that you can facilitate absolutely and I I I'll send you a link and I can I can walk you through it if you have any any uh any hiccups with it yeah just label the document to the thoughts each all right let's try this you know it's a good work in progress as I said we're starting something new and you know we'll give it a shot and then you know from here we just only improve it all right um Al or Julie did either of you have uh feedback about this or any thoughts about um you know how we can get ourselves organized or no comment I I agree with everybody's you know thoughts and ideas uh it's a good way to move forward how let me ask you a question in Stanford do do they handle stuff like this and it you know how you know I mean I'm sure we're not Reinventing the wheel but to be honest with you to be honest with you rich I really don't don't get much from you know the classroom side what are you doing with the Board of Education what they're doing you know the only the only thing we get as a staff is uh you know some shout outs from the superintendent's office we get a weekly uh newsletter from the superintendent's office but other than that we don't get much information once in a while they'll have like a an outreach program like uh just like this past Sunday they had the uh uh the Stanford public Education Foundation they they sponsored a k run for all the kids uh which was very uh was a huge turnout and that's uh they have different Corporation companies and corporations that donate money and service and time and and whatever into the into the Education Foundation uh but other than that I really don't see much I mean there's probably something there probably are things going on I just don't I don't have I don't spend enough time down there to do it to see it okay thank you I me put spot thanks a lot on my end k um once I get more information like I said from the um housing and if I get any other like um community centers or activities that we can hop in I will um let you know ahead prior to the meeting thanks Julie I also want to think about um all the places of worship that are in our community there's quite a lot um and that is a place that um you know might also be an opportunity for us to make contact um you know and reach out to some of the leaders uh of of uh various uh congregations um to see if they would be interested I mean I'm more than welcome to off in the center if you guys want to stop by and make a a public appearance uh lead if it's in your interest so okay thank you thank you uh as the Google Document circulate let's make sure that we add all of our uh different organizations that we're affiliated with to that list um and and uh you know we'll have a discussion about it all right um before we conclude I just want to make sure there's no other feedback from uh any committee members or any non-committee members no I just want to add Kate um based on Hispanic Hispanic Heron month um there's quite a lot of activities that um based on the month we should um be around um participating I know it's kind of quit this year but maybe for next year um Hispanic Heritage Month is a big a huge Span in the community maybe we can find a few activities that we we might be able to participate as a board I'm sorry Julie I maybe I didn't I didn't hear everything um what I'm breaking I I just don't think I heard heard clearly are you talking about school activities or are you talking about something else all no there's um quite a few activities within the library um yeah library and everywhere they celebrating same as um Black History Month um this month is Hispanic History Month right so this yes Hispanic herit mon so there's quite a few organizations around I know the Community Action the library us um ourself the probably the Dominican Community Center as well um they do activities related to the activity I mean the month itself so that's a way that maybe we can um for next year try to partner with some of them um overall um to see like the library might be a good um place to to meet with the community and celebrate together I mean those are places um it should be I mean everybody should be able to attend um because it's like U you know accessible yep y so but that would be something to think ahead for the next year yeah and I you know I also just want to be um aare undertake this that our goal part of our goal is being able to talk about school Rel related things and board related things um and I don't want to step on anybody's toes who might be hosting an event where that you know isn't uh directly related so as long as like you said we make contact with these organizations and sort of ask about if we could partner with them um I think that's fine I just want to be conscious that we're we don't want to intrude on somebody else's party um all right I think that concludes this meeting and I'm looking for a motion to adjourn please can I share a bit of good news first oh yes absolutely uh so this just literally happened in the last day but um we will be Barnes & Noble's uh recipient for the um holiday book drive so uh we'll be putting out more information about this but um starting November 1st when anyone goes into Barnes & Noble if you tell them you are with the danber public schools's book drive a portion of those proceeds will go to a fund for us to buy books and you'll also be able to select a book from a list and buy it and it'll go into a box that will then get diverted directly to the schools that's wonderful what period of time Mike November 1st to uh I think it's December 19th I'm pushing for the 24th so we can catch all the last minute Shoppers holiday so more on that uh as it as it all comes together so great excellent thank you for the news all right so we have a motion to adjourn from Rich may I have a second please second thank you Al all those in favor please signify by saying hi hi

and then the week after um uh next uh I'm going to hold a zoom just so that we can reach more uh of our communities to get more information out answer questions any questions they may have and for the zoom one I um Mr Manny Barbara is going to be there with me as well as uh uh Heather who is uh a Communications uh person that's working with us so just putting that out there so thank you very much and uh that that's my those are my updates um any trusty comments okayy thank you so much um I know the last time we met was prior to the back to school night so it was great to see uh trusty fam and the community out there um on the 19th of September um it was great to be out there with our our community and uh before that also hanging out at the wom Festival um grateful for vanley and the organizing committee um I know mfam you helped out a lot so thank you for um supporting that effort and making sure that uh we were there and um but uh president uh Chavez too was good to be out there and hang out um at Andrew Hill um and before I go on I want to welcome uh Herman s our superintendent I think it's the first time you sit here right formally it's a first time yes formerly so welcome um to Alam Rock and I know you I mean you hit the ground running so it feels like you've been here for you know so many and I'm like wait a second it's the first one so welcome um and you know we're glad that you're here um it was great to start off kind of pre you weren't even you hadn't even started when we did the Burlington opening so it was a day before you even started and you're already out there with us uh cutting red ribbons and stuff like that so that was fun um getting that $5,000 check and um having the the community out there also excited um and then that night uh some of us went to the Amigos of Guadalupe um event one of the partner that you know provides a lot of resources for our community our families so I'm glad they were able to celebrate and um a lot of good things coming to our our East Side our elmrock community I'm excited to hear about all the things that um they're also bringing in um and on the 30th you know as an indigenous woman for me um especially sitting on the school board um it's important to acknowledge these days and so on September 30th it's the orange shirt day and it's a day that we acknowledge Truth and Reconciliation um of what our indigenous children went through in our schools um here in the United States of America and so and so remembering what happened so it never happens again and then you know uh moving forward with the truth knowing um so that we never go backwards and so um just acknowledging that and all the children that never made it back home um also and those that did make it back home with a lot of trauma and still dealing with some of those things so you know just working as an indigenous woman also to heal part of that with my presence here I just think of my ancestors who just dreamed of being um you know at at this place um at this time so honoring that um and then this last Saturday I was able to go to Eastridge and celebrate with our community um the bational Health week and so starting really a month of taking the time to take care of ourselves right we talked about counseling which is amazing um but you know also that physical physical part of ourselves um and all the resources that are out there and just when we think like I have to deal with this pain because I might not have insurance or whatever it is you don't you know there's services and resources and so as for support and um you know we can connect you um and so it was great to be out there with some of our leaders ERS this um past weekend and uh you know look forward to continuing to collaborate with the community um and thank you staff teachers all that you do day in day out um to continue to move our district forward thank you okay well lots of things you know uh you know being a trustey also means being a truste of everything because all the business lands on on the board ultimately so first of all welcome Mr Serta your first Ro you know this is your first Ro rodeo and I want to say it's you've had an energetic week and a half and I did want to acknowledge you know you're like the the student who did the he the extra credit stuff on the first day of class right now get to that because you you you know you you did join us for the grand opening of uh you know B the Burlington Coat Factory and their awarding of uh Lindale uh the $5,000 donation and I want to say you know I went to Lindale and uh you know to congratulate them on on on such a well-deserved recognition and also in recognition of their um many years of ser you know the school's many years of service to this District you know historically it it was where this District served its uh special education population and I remember as a young you know fifth grader that I first met death children and children with developmental disability they were all educated at Lindale for you know for the better part of 50 before uh before mainstreaming took effect so prior to that being standard practice if you know if a student could not be served with accommodations in a class in a standard classroom they would be assigned to Lindale so um huge huge congratulations to Lindale I want to con painter painter hit it off on stage at the Moon Festival uh and also to congratulate all our thank all our parents for coming to Baptist school night uh what is it a Student Success is a partnership between schools and families and we would not be here without their support and uh was it a lot of congratulations uh let's see here uh Russo mckinty on winning uh the Golden Bell and I want to say I didn't you know I wasn't expecting uh you know that that one resolution to to lead to bigger you know I mean it was done in the hope that it would lead to bigger things and I'm glad it did and that was a huge partnership between uh you know with with help from uh Oak Ro trusty horo who who was leading you know the Santa Clara County School boards Association sort of environmental justice caucus right you know you know to find you know uh new avenues of uh bring Science Education into the schools in a sustainable Manner and I am uh very very glad that uh you know these efforts have helped Russo mckinty do all this and I want to reflect all of this is you know a lot of the work uh I you know it's about leveraging Partnerships right this past spring uh you know um in partnership with uh Metro Ed and San Jose UniFi trusty uh Ryan Wheatley where we you know he and I you know thought you know Metro Ed needs the enrollment we need the programming and he he you know he and I and our you know Alam Rock staff and metroed staff we found a way to provide uh Career Technical education in in our spring great camp this year right and for the Moon Festival that was a three District collaboration between Alam Rock Franklin McKinley and the East Side Union High School District to provide you know the the large you know the biggest entertainment block of the night uh at the Moon Festival right and it's it's about leveraging Partnerships with other districts and uh levels of government to bring more services to the district and also to uh public you know to show our community what Alam Rock can offer for our kids uh had a great time visiting schools continuing on my annual tour of alen rock uh so on the 20 of September uh I visited adante 1 uh um dual imersion Academy Ryan Elementary Okala middle uh great things happening uh you know uh great use of the uh Verizon learning lab when for President Chavez and I went to okola and we took some very very uh pointed questions from the8th graders especially as it uh came to you know they they asked some great questions like why do we not have a a true gym or you know why is it that that the water fountains need fixed and those are questions that you know uh it's our job to answer and I'm very proud of the fact that our kids are asking those kinds of questions right uh you know uh Ryan's doing some nice things with indoor gardening uh afterward you know after that day uh you know uh represented the district along with trusty quento at the Builder barbecue uh always want to re recognize the longstanding relationship we have with the Building Trades Council be you know many of our families are uh building skill you know union members of skill trades and the skilled trades uh you know help keep lights on uh the roof uh from leaking and basically make sure that that we we do have adequate facilities so I all you know always a pleasure to recognize uh you know the the longstanding relationship our district has with the Building Trades Council um and then after that Lucha San Antonio and Renaissance at Matson on the 27th so uh got to show Mr Barbara you know on his last day some some of our our schools and you know we got to see the maker space as well as uh uh you know uh at San Antonio uh and also uh got to see picture picture day at at Renaissance at Matson so uh lot you know lots of good things going on in our schools uh I want to congratulate Okala middle for being County CrossCountry Champions this year so this is their their best season best season on on on the track and so I want to congratulate them on on that achievement uh I want to uh also thank Linda Vista Elementary for having inviting me to their Carnival also on the 27th I always you know it's a great great way to connect with our parents and also uh to do you know I spent money I had my hot dogs I had my nachos and you know I always encourage my colleagues uh you know were invited to you know to help always help pitch in with our schools fundraising efforts uh you know other than that tomorrow I look forward to visiting Lindale attitude at GS and the Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center uh you know on that note aside from the good news you know I do want to acknowledge as has already been said that uh you know there's a lot of uncertainty with uh School consolidation and you know honestly you know it it breaks my heart uh you it's you know these are some of these are schools that I grew up hearing about and no people having attended these schools some of the brightest people I know also came out of these schools so uh you know as I've always stated my principles have been to was it preserve as many programs as possible uh was it to be careful and precise with consolidations and also to you know where we can save as save as many teachers and staff as possible and I hope that you know we could you know we can do it in uh how you say the most con considerate way possible you know in in in recognition of all the service that have been provided to our children and our families over the course of many years so you know on on that note I will uh conclude my remarks thank you yes um want to thank uh uh superint s who prior to even taking office was already uh very involved uh and um came to the Builder's barbecue uh and was able to uh make some introductions there with some key leaders uh in the in the labor movement additionally with some of our not sure if you had interacted with some of our state legislator legislators that were there it was a good opportunity to engage with some of the folks that we'll be talking to we need support um and so thank you for making it out to that uh excellent event that I I agree uh it's important to uh continue to maintain in F relationships with our uh Labor uh allies that are uh helping us um as we rebuild our district and we we um construct where where where our children are going to go to school um and so excellent event uh I was invited um to the laa Round Table in a community organization uh that gathers together a lot of a lot of people from the Theo community and uh with was able to along with uh interim superintendent uh Manny Barbara uh present on what's going on with Alan Rock U inter superintendent Barbara provided more of the details I kind of gave a broad overview um but uh as was expected people were concerned they shared their concerns um you can sense a little bit of irritation uh because elmrock happens to be a historic district where many of them have gone to school or they uh know people when to school and so um it was a little tense at first but afterwards I got the I it was very uh heartwarming to see that there was a desire to be involved to support to help and so um you know I I knew full well that uh it was not going to be U you know you know very you know happy session but uh nevertheless it was very it was great to see that uh everybody there uh it seemed as if they wanted to lend help they wanted to be helpful and supportive of alrock during these difficult times and so um I me I'm hardened by that and I expect that to be the case I have been asked by members of the community uh why is it that you're not involved in the committee well said it's designed that way so that the board is not engaged and that we're not pre um there's no sort of like this is the way it's going to be and so it took them a while to get it but they ultimately got it oh okay the the committee is putting a lot of work we want to give them the full Independence that they rightfully deserve uh to come up with their recommendations without having any sort of undue influence by the board it's a g to be able to make an ultimate decision at the end uh so I just wanted to make sure to uh reiterate that since uh a couple of folks actually brought it up and and they were a little confused as to why the board's not involved um and so um that's why I'm bringing it up here for folks who might be viewing us on uh through our our social media channels um in addition to that I want to it's uh October 12th is around the corner many people know October 12th as Columbus Day uh for those of us who uh celebrate it for other reasons it's known as zasa uh and um there has been efforts to undermine that to help uh clean away and erase the fact that we are a mixture of two uh two races two different cultures and um I'm very glad to see that there are organizations out there continuing to Foster and to acknowledge that there is a unique group of people that happens not to be from Europe or be solely indigenous that we happen to be a mixture of two cultures and so on October 16th the Latino leadership Alliance will be celebrating um uh deasa at Miss Skyler restaurant if you're around amazing great Cuisine and um join us as we uh celebrate this um it's it's it's very disheartening to see that there's a movement to go out there so no no this is mesy sake and then vasconcelos a weirdo and he had whatever he's not going to take over an entire massive group of people that populate the Western Hemisphere who happen to be the product of the merging of these two cultures however it may have happened we are here and I'm very proud of that and uh grateful to those of us who continue to acknowledge this and supportive of our efforts on on October 12th so please join us at 5:30 on October 16th at mcal uh where we will be enjoying some amazing wakan Cuisine uh come and have some uh some chapinas out there if you're interested okay I guess my turn uh I'm glad to see um superintendent Sera you know jumping not like jumping and but jumping and running and everything else to to get up to speed here and I'm glad that he's enjoying the morgage Borg or the Latino Food Heaven here east side of San Jose and that's another one the WR down my list and um I want to thank all the people on the school closure committee for all their work and and that they're doing and for every all the stakeholders and their patients through all this process um it's it's best as uh inter um Manny said that we that we stay away from them but that we will be looking at everything that that they provide and um and I just want to thank all the parents and for sticking with us through all of this and this is an opportunity for Alan Rock to reset itself and and some might look at it like oh no they're going to close my school but what they don't realize is how much better the learning will be for the students when we can supply everything that is needed in the classrooms and meet all the needs of the children their learning needs as well um I just look forward to seeing that someday it'll take a couple years but um I want to see it as soon as possible um and I also want to thank men for doing all he does with the students every single time he has a chance to donate something even if it's buying hot dogs he's there to help so I I think that's great um and just and by pres GTO you do a lot of work on this board as well and you're out there in the community and U congratulations again on that and it was very well deserved and Justa you also are always out there in the community and trying to make things better for the children here in alumrock and I never really realized how much time and effort um all of us have been putting in um my calender every day says Alan Rock you're going here Alan Rock you're going there and I just say hi Frank bye Frank hi Frank that's my husband and then he just says I don't even see you anymore you're always politicking so um thank you to him for his patience as well and uh I guess it was yesterday we got to go to um Frank KY was it yesterday all these days and um that was very exciting to see the commemoration of the launching of the ignite uh launch event and that was with Lorena Chavez who wrote the Grant and um she also got me to get in there and sign for the gr but um hopefully it'll be coming soon and in all of her efforts for Teach for America and we have a lot of teachers from Teach for America here in alrock and I want to tell you that uh that's an excellent program and um they're doing really good work and hopefully we can um I we can have them here um tutoring the children as soon as possible too and I was looking at the site when I first seen um the superintendent Serta he goes behind me and I could feel somebody walking up on me right so he didn't startle me but he says whatat are you doing I says look at these schools I said our schools this is what we're going to have in the future because we're going to be able to provide what we you know what we see here and better so um I look forward to that and I don't want to make this thing too long or I'm going to cut myself off here as far as the time goes so let's move on to the next um item which is the 701 quarterly reports on Williams uniform complaints do I have a motion approve so I have a motion from trust fam and a second from um vice president Kinto uh do I have any public comment on this item seeing no public comment do I have any trustee comment seeing no trustee comment uh I move for the vote all in favor raise your hand so the vote is unanimous four in favor and one absent uh which is uh trustee Andrea Flor Shelton so I'm just going to be calling the vote from here Miss Maribel when you're writing it down uh I'm just going to be doing four and I'm not going to be saying every single time that uh that one of the trustees is absent okay okay so um moving on to 702 approve English language Learners reclassification criteria second I have a motion from vice president uh GTO and I heard first Min fam and the second and um do I have any public comment on item 702 seeing no public comment uh do I have any truste comment um uh Mr kto uh I just want to thank the staff for their work on moving on reclassification and continue to move our kids forward I know that that was something that uh Dr bow undertook and I want to give her credit for that uh for focusing on on moving our kids out I remember uh that in the past it was quite to just simply leave kids there and just you w up getting a letter as you're about to graduate thanks you finally learned English like well I'm taking some pretty Advanced courses here um so having gone through that um uh I'm grateful for the work that staff is doing and we've been moving in the right direction uh so thank you for that congratulations all the kids and Mr minan you know and I do you know I I want to thank District staff as well as you know to give credit to uh you know the pre previous superintendent Dr bow as well and I I say this in the context of uh you know uh as Mr Barbara said earlier in his presentation uh language is key right it unlocks a lot of doors and uh if a child doesn't have sufficient uh understanding of English uh they're required to take English language development instead of elective offerings and so uh reclassification opens doors and so I I I want to I I want to you know give you know honor honor all the work that came through and to move to allow our kids to succeed uh in in further areas along their career thank and I'll just finish up with thank you for the to the staff um because um it wouldn't happened without you helping them so thank you very much it's also um an achievement for them as well and and and I'm sure they're really happy about it as well okay so all in favor of the motion raise your hand 4 Z is the vote it's unanimous motion passes 703 approve California state preschool program continued funding application for fiscal year 2025 2026 I have a motion from vice president Kinto I have a second from truste fam do I have any public comment seeing none do I have any trustey comment uh uh truste kinaa I just want to thank uh Dr Vos for uh her work and um you know I was talking to uh superintendent during our oneon-one and just um looking forward to continuing to grow that program that you know was just doing so well and um and I just think of all the children when we talk about being ready for that third grade Mark and that eighth grade Mark right it starts with this so thank you for your leadership and all the other staff there too trusty men I too want to thank Dr baleros and the Early Learning team and uh I look forward to seeing our kids tomorrow at Cesar shav's Early Learning Center uh I'll go next thank thank you and I'll also be seeing you tomorrow uh I'm going to be doing the School site visit uh with um trusty Min as well uh so let me see so I got a first and a second um and I got the trusty comments let's vote all in favor raise your hand so the motion passes unanimously it's a 4 Z vote uh moving on to school field trip Mr second okay so I have a motion for truste uh minam and I have a second from uh truste Corina loera for the school sponsor field trip list and I will ask Mr Min to say his comment please okay so half to to our kids have fun and Bone Voyage there you go it's official now okay so now moving on to 801 resignations only excuse me resignations and that's for information only moving on to 802 approve updated job description um yes did youo the vote for the um board oops 74 okay we need a vote on 704 704 whoops uh so do I have any public comment seeing no public comment any trustey comment seeing no trusty comment do I uh have a a unanimous vote again let's vote 4 Z thank you uh motion passes unanimously on item 7 4 now moving on to 801 I already bypassed that because that was information only do we we do have to take public comment on 801 on on resignations I don't think so we never have have we that's okay any public comment on resignations seeing none trusty comments seeing none moving on for the vote no vote no vote information there's no vote now 802 approve updated job description move to approve uh is this the one job description for telecommunications technician okay so I have a motion from trust binaa a second from truste men fam do I have any public comment on item 802 seeing no public comment do I have any trustee comment seeing now we move to the vote on 802 all in favor raise your hand it's a 40 vote unanimous motion passes 803 move to approve job description for chief bonds officer do I have a second uh Mr s you look like you want to say something no okay do I have a second you me to interject this is just a job description the position has already been approved this is just a job description so because it didn't say interim do we have to now change something well this is the job description but the position okay but we can change it I I would say that's that's why I'm looking at you because I thought you were going to make a comment on that no I I making a comment on a different one but go ahead okay Madam pres if I may uh yes please uh you you know um amend the mo uh you know to to put it as a interim Chief bonds officer do I have a second second okay so there's been a Amendment but yes I'll second okay so trusty Min fam made a motion uh for the interim um Chief bonds officer and truste Corina second the motion do I have any public comment do I have any trustee comment seeing none let's go for the vote all in favor raise your hand so it is a 40 it the motion passes unanimously on item 803 so moving on to 804 job approved job description human resources risk management coordinator you I got a motion motion to approve job subcription for human resource risk management coordinat uh do I have a second second uh okay so I have a motion and a uh from trusty kinaa and a second from trusty minf fam um do I have any public comment seeing none do I have any trusty comment seeing none uh let's move for the vote on 804 all in favor raise your hand the motion passes the vote is eight excuse me 4 to0 z uh it passes unanimously moving on President and I can ask for a five five minute recess let's have a 5 minute recess it's 8:51 right now we'll be back at 8:56 e right behind Theo yes you got that cool whether it's cold or hot it always is right you have the heat lamp too cold or it's hot cover by Brick I and then it got cold you want to St here because it's you know it's right here so kind of grabs you you start up that corner a no it's just right kind of chilly and during the the consolidation comme I know you're sitting yeah Heather Heather the communications person she she brought an actual she all right no I told you you can use it okay so um moving on to 901 back from break uh approve the kadango contract this contract will provide a licensed preschool program operating a full day part day class at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center and Cesar Chavez preschool Center submitted by early learning for 2,8 93,587 do I have a motion Madame President may I say something before you this is the one I wanted to just make a correction on sure um I would like to change this to a ratification and that's because the contract uh began July 1st and so I've I've my staff and I we've uh we're going to be ensuring that in the future if we're bringing any contracts uh that um we bring them before the actual beginning of the date and um of when it becomes effective and it'll become effective either the day of the board when it's approved or moving forward and if it's a ratification it would only be uncertain whether it's if it's an emergency or or and that's something I would communicate to the board so thank you thank you for that comment so I have so I have a motion from uh truste GTO uh vice president kto I have a second from I didn't here another second so I'm going with your second uh Corina loera second and uh do I have any public comment seeing none do I have any trusty comment seeing none let's move for the vote on item 901 all in favor raise your hand so the motion passes 4 z uh passes unanimously moving on to uh 902 approv the for how do you f rxa what fora Inc contract for the 2024 2025 school year this contract will provide three alamro School sites with enrichment programs of five week rotations five in the fall and five in the spring submitted by state and federal for $235,000 do I have a motion move to approve okay so I have a motion from Corina trusty kinaa I have uh second from vice president ginto um do I have any public comment on this item seeing no public comment do I have any trustee comments see none uh we will move for the vote on 902 all in favor raise your hand so the motion passes unanimously 4 Z moving on to 903 approve the rising stars bed academic Academy contract for 2024 2025 school year this contract will provide an NPS placement for autistic or severe behaviorally disordered students submitted by special education for $224,500 do I have a motion move second I don't say it one more time because I don't know who went first motion to approve okay uh trusty fam did the motion the second is uh truste kinaa and so do is there any uh public comment seeing none any trustey comment seeing none let's move for the vote on item 903 all in favor raise your hand motion passes unanimously 40 uh on 903 moving on to 904 approve the Spectrum Center contract cont am thank you uh second do I have a second second there was a tie how about a second second okay trusty MF I have a uh do I have any public comment okay so I have a motion from uh vice president that's what I believe you said and second from truste Min famam and so there's no public comment is there any trustee comment no trusty comment we'll move for the vote on 904 all in favor raise your hand uh the motion 9904 passes unanimously the consent calendar M president move to approve the entire balance of the consent calendar from items 10.01 through 10.14 president uh Chavez can I pull 108 1008 uh yes you can pull 108 and I want to pull one item as well let me get that number which one is the plant Parenthood one 1012 1013 okay so we are pulling which was your item number 108 10:8 and we're pulling 10 well it's part of the whole okay okay so um all in favor of approving the consent calendar item 101 102 3 four five 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 and uh I need public comment did did is any public comment no public comment okay so any truste comment uh so we're gonna first vote on the consent calendar actually can I say one small thing on that you want to just a comment in the ones we're voting on okay okay so 10 102 okay who was the I'm sorry who was the second the second was um uh trusty minan okay no he was the one that made the motion I think trusty qu trusty was the one that made the motion backwards backwards no 10 trusty fam and then it was okay so trusty minf made the motion the motion and Trust second and we're editing and we pulled item 108 for discussion and 1012 for discussion on the consent calendar so the motion was for all of the items except for 108 and 1012 to be voted on right now okay I just want to say something um minor on the um uh fundraising activities um welcome Mr said that and um you know just encouraging our community our um staff to uh get them approved ahead of time because we would hate for something to happen um and so yeah thank you for everyone who's striving to get them ahead and uh I look forward to continue to move in that direction thank you thank you and that's it thank okay thank you and on maybe I could do this one really quick too um I noticed that Planned Parenthood was on the consent calendar and um because of the nature of their business of killing The Unborn I would like to see if there's any way that we can fill those requirements through another company that doesn't do that um that's just my comment and if you want you want to add our I'm going to add mine to the what we just said or we are the makers of the Motions okay with that if I is it okay if we put the those two back on and just calendar okay okay so we're going to take Miss Mar we're going to take the whole entire consent calendar uh thank you so it's going to be 10:01 through 10:14 uh for approval do I have any public comment CN none do I have any trusty comments see I'll add my comment on to this then from ten did your comment no okay that was on the fundraising which is another number I have a comment now on the Ruby Bridges one oh no I'm gonna I earned my SE here for president okay so on the Ruby Bridges on the Ruby Bridges one I just want to um highlight I was honored to meet her on Tuesday um she was a keynote speaker here in our County and to hear her speak and to hear her experience I know we've had a presentation in the past um um but to hear her speak about her experience and walking through those doors in that school and to be in front of a caring teacher who was not right her color um and really I I think of the 1960s and um just that teacher's bravery and courage to stand against any hate racism um and all the other things happening that she I mean and Ruby talked about it right how her classroom was so loving and welcoming and how she looked forward every morning getting ready to go to that classroom and being taught by that that teacher so I just you know want to also with that thank our teachers for being that teacher and that person in every classroom for our students that get ready in the morning and just look forward to learning um so I just wanted to highlight that thank you thank you I appreciate that um so moving on to the vote uh all in favor raise your hand uh 4 Z motion passes for the entire consent calendar approved okay almost done okay request for from Board of Trustees and or from the public request shall be submitted in writing to the superintendent or design with supporting documents and information if any at least one week before the scheduled meeting date item submitted less than a week before the scheduled meeting date may be postponed to a later meeting in order to allow sufficient time for consideration and research of the issue that's board policy 9322 and before I adjourn this meeting I want to let everybody know that the next regular board meeting is November 14 2024 and we will be having another board meeting on October 24th uh same time and same Channel people at 5:30 um so the meeting is adjourned at 906

[Music] he [Music] oh [Music] he [Music] he [Music] oh [Music] I'm I'm going to call the Workshop to order at 5:30 roll call President Melinda saski Charlene Diaz here Fred Rushton here Barb Z ziki here tonight we're going to go over about 15 different policies this is our first reading of them so if we have any questions we really need to to do this I think I'm the only one here tonight um 1.3 uh evaluation of school board self or School Board self evaluation has this changed any um yeah Cass will get it up um the only things that have changed are anything that's underlined or crossed off and so for many of these there are very few things changed uh but so you see the the board may meet should it choose to do so for the purpose of appraising its function is so it took away the requirement of a self AOW an annual self AOW yeah but we're still requiring it from ourselves for ourselves right well and you can choose to do that it's just you know and then you notice that the legal reference apparently it was removed from the legal reference or from the law or something so um so that's what you're going to see on each of these where there are changes in some cases uh it may just be a legal reference in other cases it's changing the wording uh but what asba does with these is make sure that any existing policies um reflect any changes that have happened in the last legislative you know session so uh some of them as I say are very minor changes and then there are some that have either lots of additions or lots of deletions so you'll kind of see that uh item one point4 policy bbba board member qualifications let's see if I'm still qualified yeah we are oh they don't have an age lemit on it so we're still qualifi okay and I think I think yeah I think that's the only CH well and then you see underlined the the new legal reference that uh that matches that well shoot I guess I'm still legal all right any questions no Fred are you still legal yes ma'am okay y all right yes I am 1.5 policy DJ bidding purchase purchasing procedures uh so you can see District purchase yeah these are uh that one happens to be a federal uh they regulations that we have to state regulations we have to follow in procurement and there are federal ones so sometime back when we were first talking about uh like replacing the air the HVAC units and building the den and whatever and I I mentioned to you all I'm sure you don't remember but something like the Edgar rules and Edgar EDG stands for some you know it's an acronym U but those are federal regulations that we have to follow and in that case it particularly has to do with u making sure as I recall that one has to do with making sure that we are paying prevailing wages um and if it's not if that's not what Edgar is there's another set that has to do with that but they this one right no uh but it uh but it it relates to that because in this case it's just referencing the FED those federal regulations and making sure we're following them um and I think it just said think that was it it just said requested three requested it didn't say they had to turn them into it right right we we have to we have especially U uh okay so between 0 and $110,000 uh we can pretty much purchase whatever we want now it's not just one item 10,000 it means collectively for the year from one vendor between 10,000 and 100,000 we have to have verbal quotes uh from at least three vendors and or at least indicate that we have tried to get verbal quotes from three and we have to document you know what it is we sent for and that they didn't didn't they declined or whatever over 100,000 we have to have written quotes uh and we have to have uh very specific criteria for selecting um and it's not one set of specific it's specific for whatever it is we've put out to bid um and and we follow all of those rules very closely okay so this is nothing really very new nothing new for us item uh 1.6 regulation dj- bidding purchasing procedures so this is the regulation that goes with that go uh and it won't be down on the agenda tonight because remember we don't usually put regulations and Exhibits on the night in the actual agenda for the first reading we only put them in when we come to the second reading and so you're seeing the same kind of legal references here uh to make sure that we are um uh doing all the procurement uh regulations that we're supposed to okay any questions on any of these so far no okay no and you can see that's a very lengthy yeah that one's huge regulation so it probably should be yes and the state regulations themselves uh if we published it or printed it in a book would be about this thick um uh the state regulations now there's another whole uh there's another whole section that's new um oh this is Jen was there's the word Jen was asking me about today we don't I we don't know what I don't find the word debarment now it will be in our policy we she and I were searching through the policies today because she got something uh since she handles all the grants she got a notice that uh if they audit our grant spending that they're going to be looking for and they had a whole list of things they were looking for one of which was suspension and dear debarment verification and of course we're both searching through policy bridge to find the word debarment because I've never heard that in relationship to education and we couldn't find it so well now we will be able to find it so it is um yeah and what does it mean well since we didn't find it Barb I don't know let's see oh probably means something about excluded or suped sure if it's in that same sentence yeah excluding them from uh from it says legally preventing a person organization or non-government organization from participating in certain activities or enjoying certain rights privileges or possessions thank you isn't it wonderful to be able to Google those things quickly I love Google um and I guess informally informally we kind of do that if if if we put out a request for quotes or a request for bids um uh we have a list you know of local vendors and whatever that we send those out to um um rather informally in that process when we set up the rubric for consideration of uh of the subsequent quotes or bids one of the items is always um uh us ranking uh or giving a a a point value uh to a to companies if we've had previous business with them and if they have not been good vendors if they've not been good uh you know suppliers for us they had a pretty low rating on that and so sometimes it could be just enough to debar them from it goes on it gives an example it says a company may be debarred from government contracts due to allegations of fraud or mismanagement there you go so if they that would make sense yes it is sounds like a legal term doesn't it yeah so um but we we can you know we can it's it's nice to know that there's a a specific regulation to back that up but we also know from our procurement training that um uh that you know that we are allowed and in fact encouraged to have that in our list of items that one item that says uh you know what kind of what kind of business have you had with these people before because the truth is I don't want to give business back to a vendor who has you know maybe they haven't defrauded us but maybe they're work was low quality or poor quality or their products were poor um uh we don't you know we don't need to continue to do business with somebody that's not reputable okay thank you item 1.7 policy GCF professional staff hiring uh this is it's interesting that this is added because it is in already in our application I was going to say isn't it that they have to tell us if they've been yeah they have to tell us if yeah this says whether they've pled guilt oh I see yep you're right we don't have it in there Yep this is new well it would be nice to know so that we yeah know they nice to know they're waiting trial so that and it doesn't mean exactly so it doesn't mean that eventually we might not hire them if they wen't if they were you know exonerated U but at least we might not hire them before they were convicted so okay and result in its own set of problems any question no no okay 1.8 policy gcfc professional staff certification and credentialing requirements this is fingerprinting yeah those are all the same this one has something simil there we go y z AA and a are all new um in another state or territory okay check will those make yeah we have these are covered in another policy but it's probably good to have them here too yeah okay there some more to that is there more cast on down no no just the legal reference legal reference um item 1.9 exhibit GCF c-e professional staff certification credentialing requirements this is so this is the exhibit the exhibit that goes with it that they have to ass and it's very similar to what we already have they've just added those last four items okay got it item 1.0 one0 policy gdf supporting staff hiring and this just uh applies the same item to support staff from professional okay so the next one is uh just a regulation that goes with it too yes item 1.11 policy gdfa support St qualification requirements yeah this is similar as to the one uh for professional it's not a regulation but it's another policy so it's going to have a yeah I was going to say okay so it has those four things on the end okay and those make a lot of sense yes 1.12 exhibit gdf F A- support staff qualification requirements this is the regulation then well this is the exhibit that they sign it's the same is the other one but it's for support staff these have to be notorized no oh well it says they do I don't remember that they have been in the past yeah that's what I we just have them sign them we've not had them not notorized them but we do have a notary on staff so in our business office so and it's not the HR person so uh we can have that done okay I just saw that that that was was interesting item 1.13 policy IGA curriculum development uh all cert cert certificated Personnel have professional obligations to the school program Beyond regular classroom duties and these obligations will include work on curriculum committees uh I don't quite know why that one has been removed uh Cass you scroll it down a little bit yes we do yeah so the the legal reference hasn't changed and we clearly expect our our certificated people who are on contract uh to serve on some committees without pay and you know as part of their job uh we pay as much as we can when we can but uh it's interesting to me that um I I suspect this has to do this is pure speculation um there are some districts in the state where uh meet and confer uh between Administration and the teachers organization where their teachers are much more organized uh you know in a like aea than we are um and that they essentially negotiate even though it should just be meet and confer under the law but they do that I suspect this came about because uh in some District uh it's very much your work hours are these and anything beyond that we're going to pay you for and as always um you know you could seek legal advice about leaving it in if you wanted to I'm wondering whether you know a certif certificated person could just come by and say hey it's in policy we don't have to do this well if you take if you take that sentence out yeah they could say it that doesn't I mean we can interpret it that for you want me to check the legal yeah I I really think that certificated Personnel should have some input into that okay so check with uh talk with certif or talk with the attorney how do you want me to handle that see if we can leave it in okay Cass this is what IGA thank you okay thank you absolutely item 1.14 policy Iha basic instruction program uh this one just uh has some very has some more specific language relative to instruction about the Holocaust and other genocides and we do teach that at Junior High Level yeah okay 7 to 12 okay got it 1.15 policy IMG animals in school um we've had rules for a long time in our district that uh uh we don't transport animals live animals on school buses yeah um and all they all they've done is switch this language around a little bit uh and then you see a whole new section on uh relative to Ada um and puts some restrictions and and some expectations relative to service animals yeah Kate's noticing this do you need a little bigger Kate yeah there you go well I wouldn't be able to see from out there either I do like it that if there are issues though that the animal can be removed yes however this is much more specific than anything we've had than anything we've had um so it's nice to have something well it's nice to have it in there yes that's what I'm saying it's nice to have something in there that we did not have before hasn't been an issue for a couple of years but we have had issues in the past yes it's been a few years how many uh students in our population do have service animals zero yeah as far as I know none at this time but we have had issues in the past had we've had them in the past and then we've had requests in the past for service animals that were not necessarily dogs and um and not H and not had uh verification say from a physician or you know so it it creates issues when there are no when there's nothing in policy to help us with it so this is at least a step in the right direction item 1.16 regulation img-r animals in school okay this is just the same thing isn't it well this is the regulation so it's going to be U much more specific about what we can can't do cor vaccination of the animal uh pretty specific information about the animal oh interesting okay and then there you go see so for instance If This Were a student who uh this would apply to regular buses too but if we had a student who rode one of the special ed buses um you know they're not going to just the first time get on and have the animal they need to arrange it with us in advance um e gives us some uh some wiggle room also so so we're putting more pressure on the teacher now the teacher has to clean up dog uh well it makes it I mean it's kind of indirectly saying that yep yeah which is what says if animals are to be kept in a classroom on days when classes are not in session should be with the stud you know this this is not talking that that it doesn't have to do this is like a classroom pet oh oh cuz remember this thing has to do with all animals not just animals not service animal I'm going to school that's what's the point of having a service animal I know so take care of take care of your reptiles or your snakes bunnies or whatever like snakes yeah kind of eliminates pet elephants too pet elephants can't keep those horses I don't think we have a room big enough for a pet elephant you can't ride your horse to school there anymore makes sense yeah they're all logical yeah Mak sensible okay got it questions anybody no okay um 1.17 policy jfb open enrollment this one just adds uh the item about um uh children of members of the Armed Forces um there are schools in schools and school districts in the state that are called Purple schools and and um that has to do with enrollment of children of U military families is there something crossed off yeah up on top oh there we go oh a subsection yeah posted by specialist good catch if a school has any other separate capacity by specialized program the information required pursuant to AR15 d81 16.01 shall also be posted by the special specialized program so it just means we have to keep people informed which we do about most things in en we do that anyway well they're supposed to I mean we've been we've been enforcing it on the state on the main one I I haven't been checking the site ones but so okay well shame on me so we will make sure there no changes you don't have to worry about reporting it then no but we still try to follow that okay item 1.18 regulation jbf dasr open enrollment um I will tell you that this is one that I would like to run by the attorney uh I'm not real excited about it being so uh in one sense being so Broad and in the other sense being so specific so saying there should be an equitable process in place and we have an equitable process um but saying such as a randomized lottery uh kind of makes people believe that that's the only acceptable one and uh uh that makes me a little nervous because it precludes things such as we have in our process that um uh uh children of employees we will grant open enrollment um you know to whatever whichever site uh and then we have uh next in the in the process uh consideration of those children who were on open enrollment last year the previous year um and uh and and then we move down to um uh we move to usually a first a first submitted first approved list first come first serve okay yeah kind of and so this makes me nervous because if somebody interprets that as being randomized Lottery is maybe the only thing even though it's such as but somebody interprets that as being the only one I don't think it's right to say to employees kids for instance or even to students who were allowed open enrollment the previous year oh you're now in the lottery and then force them back to another school you know that they're only in the open enrollment for one year at a time I that's not in any student's best interest um so uh you know I fully intend to run this one by Ben and and see if we are violating anything by leaving it alone good idea because the bigger description gives us gives us a little more a little more uh you know to approve what we're doing yeah okay is there anything below this Cass nope nope thank you and it's a regulation so you know regulations are procedures uh and we can pretty much you know as long as it's within the law we can have usually whatever procedures we want it's just that the regulation defines what those procedures are item 1.19 policy jdh or jhd exclusion exemptions from School attendance uh this one really the only thing that's changed throughout the whole thing is that they have changed the word certified to licensed okay and it's true uh Cass will show you the regulation and it's the same in the regulation okay item 1.2 zero regulation jdhr exclusion exemptions for school from School attendance just change and so that changes through the entire document license certified the license okay okay item 1.21 exhibit JD hd- EA exclusions and exemptions from School attendance and this is simply the uh ex this is the form that is used and once again you see the the same changes I can understand why they say they're changing certified license because you can pretty much get certified by anything you get on the right interet Internet site yeah true true where licensing is implies something is done well in some agency you know you've been Li you've been licensed by some agency or some uh yeah institution as opposed to pulling a certificate EXA um 1.22 exhibit h j hdb exclusions and exemptions from School attendance and there you go with and it's the same just another change from certified license okay item 1.23 regulation jlc d-r medicines administrating medicines to students shouldn't there be an or there either either or just saying yeah there should be an or in there before Item B yeah so I think we can add that ourselves good catch okay is there and are there any other changes on this one cast any questions on any of these that we oops whoops I guess there's more current changes okay my there any more down toward the bottom K bottom yeah we go here we go yeah another unfunded mandate do we have a uh stipulation backing up if you would please Cass yeah back up a little bit stop right there it says training must be renewed right at as prescribed by the school board do we have that um I think this I think this is what authorizes you to do that as a board to say uh you know what those regular inter intervals are unless we have and I didn't see a regulation or anything attached to this so um it makes it not very clear oh this is a this is a regulation mhm well but still it's not very clear about when I mean you that it doesn't say that it implies that you all can uh can decide okay this training must be renewed at every year or must be renewed every two years um which then means that what we would do is we' just calendar it on a calendar that on uh our board Cal you know board meeting calendars um has a you know a calendar of the the things we are required to discuss each month and it would just get calendared is there a way we can add that stipulation to this yes it's a regulation you can add whatever you want so if you all want to say when we actually address this next month but you can say it right now it right now well but you can say right now what you want it to be because you're not going to approve it until next month but you could say you know uh training must be renewed once a year once a year or once every two years however you want what ever you want to say there um because this is just guidance you know um as prescribed by the school board so you could change that regular intervals to be annually or biannually whatever you wanted to put there why don't we just say training must be renewed annually yeah for it should be annually because of the change over and stuff of employees and stuff they say we should renew it every year okay is there any other change on this one some on the next page I saw yeah there yeah right there consquences that's a good liability statement for the district okay do we have any more down there so must be able to practice proper safety precautions and and this is also the regulation whereby we uh uh do not allow students to carry around over the-counter medications you know if they if they are to have any of those as authorized by the parent they must be kept in the health office and administered by the health attendant lots of pages there y'all oh yeah okay item 1.24 adjourning the workshop do I have a motion to adjourn I make a motion we adjourn the workshop I'll second at that all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Das I Fred Rush IB ziki it's 6 o'clock can you go all immediately into the can I call to order whoops I have a piece of paper I'm supposed to read I call to order the regular meeting of the Bullhead City School Board on Thursday October 10th 2024 at 6 p.m it's 606 on your if you look on your pict on the screen it's 606 at 606 pm.

when I was down here uh when the alarms were going going off and and uh I needed to come check to see if anything was wrong and and he happened to be one of the officers in the middle of the night uh his daughter attended our schools uh she's now in the high school um but I think they've made a really good choice of uh of somebody who really wants to work with students and work with us on on making things happen and then my last thing is uh the garage out back uh we are uh having our garage sales and this week and then um two more times uh it's all instructional materials now this bibl biblo file has real trouble trouble going out there and seeing all the books and instructional materials that are and many of them are 20 years old U but even some of those 20year old things are brand new because we didn't use them at the time you know we didn't I mean they maybe we had more books than we had kids I don't know but it it kills me that we have all of these instructional materials that um that we don't need um today was the first uh day and um uh a number of people came and and purchased books and things so uh we'll finish that uh by the 1 of November and then we'll go back to furniture and Equipment but if you want to come anytime let me know actually you can let Erica know because I put her in charge of this project and she is amaz she's an amazing organizer and she just uh she was like a dog with a bone and she's got it so organized and everything just uh planned out and and it's amazing so anytime if you want to visit the the garage um or the shed as other people call it uh I I say it's a garage sale so we have to have a garage um uh you're welcome to come see now is it open to the public to come buy that stuff or yes that's the whole idea um because because we would either have to do an auction so announce an auction date and have an auctioner and sell things that way but if we do it we can do it this way so we have it only open certain days of the week from certain hours but what happens in this case is you price it in advance yeah uh so there's no there's no bartering there's none of that kind of thing um and so uh we have so many books and things out there that she's selling uh and we have boxes and whatever pick up a box fill your box it's five bucks um and um so uh she had some uh some parents out there today with Littles and and uh mom can I have this book and and that was kind of fun so Jen Jen was tell me about that so uh Erica is doing a great job of organizing that and we're not trying to make money you know we're not going to make money on it these are things that we purchased somewhere in the past just like with the furniture and Equipment the idea is We are following those regulations that I told you about uh that on how we can dispose of unused or outdated or broken um uh equipment and those kinds of things so it it is US following the rules okay and then we can use those funds whatever funds we take in for purchase of sim of of the same kinds of things so for what all the furniture and equipment we sell we can use those funds for furniture or equipment for all of these instructional materials that we sell we can use those funds for uh for U instructional materials that we do need and that are up to date okay long report I'm sorry but uh I thought these were all important things okay can we see the ml budget for just a minute okay it doesn't have it on there go down please what are you looking for um got my tax bill yeah okay and we definitely increased our taxing it should reflect I got mine too it should reflect uh it should the tax rate should reflect what we had on our uh on our Bud looking for see if it was on here but no it's one it's a I think it's a165 what's happened is the valuation on our properties have all gone up and and so then you know so then that increases so yeah I noticed that my 24% increase on mine I noticed was it okay um uh so you know so and I saw that actually in article that I was reading today as well um uh you know we our tax rate for our district has continued to go down all six years um but that increase in tax is because our the valuation on our properties have gone up and I've watched that happen with my with my house I've lived there since 95 and you know uh in in 2008 just before the bu you know just before the bubble burst um U my the the valuation on my house was I don't know 50 or 75% higher than what I had what my what I had paid for the house and then after that uh it dropped and it continued to drop until it was uh only about 70% of what I paid for my house and now it's back up above what I've paid for my house but that but it seems to me that if our houses have gone up in in value that our tax bill are the the amount amount of tax the the percentage of tax should have gone down if we have not increased our needs does that make sense no okay no it's going to go up it's going to go up because as your valuation goes up that means it's based on your value yeah based on every1 your your taxes are going to be more did you know that little circle thing yeah okay I what little circle thing the little circle graph up in the corner oh I didn't notice that I'll have to look at that um mhm basically says that it's the fire department yes the fire district is high and then crushed the bond okay and well the bond there's there's they have two yeah well they have their M and the bond and then us yes which but it looks to me on just check the circle graph okay and see it looked to me like we had increased what we're were asking for okay no and I don't get to determine that we you know that's determined at the at the county level and um I mean when I came it was on our budget it said $3 and something I learned later that that was not accurate so the first budget that I had which was created you know before I came on board had an amount on it that was not correct um um based on the information that I got from the County treasures office uh so the next year I waited until I got that number from them and so of course that first one was considerably less than uh than what it had been $3 and something the year before I think it was I'm guessing I'm I'm trying to test my memory here but I think the first year that I actually did a budget it was about a190 um uh a about a190 and it's gone down each time so we're at 165 now um so uh uh you know so but as the value of our properties go up I'll have to look at that maybe I'm just reading it okay um and as a side note I I sent this to you all in an email today but I but I I kind of want to mention it uh one of the articles that um Lance send us today in our daily brief news briefs uh had to do with the fact that Chandler is asking uh on the on the election for on November 5th uh for 4 I think it's 484 4 87,000 million dollar Bond million 480 roughly 480 million Bond okay so I'm sitting there and I'm going holy cow they have six million square feet under roof so you know add up all the square footage of all their schools and all of properties they have 6 million square fet so I divided that out it's about 81 $1 per square foot for that Bond okay so I thought okay so if that were the case if if we were wanting to consider anything similar so I took U uh I took that $81 and I multiplied it times the number of square feet that we have in our district which is as I recall in the neighborhood of 24,000 square ft for all of our school sites um that would mean if we had the tax base to do it that we could look for a bond in the neighborhood of 19 million and I'm I'm sitting there and I'm thinking wow we have we have things that we need done to our schools uh to keep them operational to you know to keep them safe to do the things we need to do wow what could we do with 19 million now I'm I'm I know that it's unlikely for us as a school district to to get a bond you know Bond pass even for a million dollars I'm you know so I'm not proposing that we do that uh but it was a little bit of pipe dreaming going on on my part in terms of you know of wouldn't it be nice if we had some of those dollars to do the things we need to do to update uh uh repair upgrade so we're not always behind the eightball uh in our district and not have to wait for sfd uh to do it because we're scrambling I mean we scramble to get things done and um uh so uh you know it would be nice to be able to uh for example and and when you do the bond you have a plan for what what you're going to do with all that money it's not like you're going to bank it and then use it as you need it uh but uh the hbac in the room next to where our servers are um uh the condenser on the outside unit it's a split unit so it has outside and inside and both of those have uh have condensers and both of those condensers use a coolant that is no longer U it's grandfathered in but we can no longer put the same kind of coolant in those uh in those condensers so we need to replace the condenser uh well that's kind of expensive and and in the scheme of things it would make more sense to replace the whole unit so U the fact that it's not working now draws down on the viability of the unit that cools the actual server room and that's not a very big room it's a closet maybe the size of that closet back there right James yeah pretty close to that so it has its own hbac unit but it's attached to that room so now this room is hot this HVAC unit is trying to keep the server room cool but you and I know that the walls of that server room are touching the walls of this room or are walls in this room and are being affected by the fact that that is not working sfd will not replace that because it does that that hbac because that room does not serve an academic purpose yeah I think the law and she quoted the law to me um um and and I said so I said okay we're gonna we're going to take care of it um what we're going to do is replace the condenser because I don't have $14,000 to replace the HVAC so we're going to replace the condenser but I said to her just speculating if our server room were on a campus a School site as opposed to here at the district and this happened what would be the outcome they would pay for the HVAC unit and I said this this Ser these servers were required to have internet for our students to do testing we're required for our to have internet for our students to do some of the work that they do and our teachers to teach because all of all of the connecting kinds of things are computer programs so don't tell me that isn't academic it is academic um and I wasn't trying to argue with her I was just trying to make a point that the definition you know that their definition or their interpretation of academic uh and mine different differ greatly um uh so uh but the point was made when she said well if oh I'm sorry if that if that server room were on if we moved it next door and the room next to the server room HVAC died sfd would replace it no questions asked now the purpose of the server room hasn't changed the only thing that's changed is its location location tell me how that is logical It Isn't So anyway um uh but if we had if we had some money to do those kinds of things you know if if we had money to to repair things in advance when we knew that they were wearing out or they were outdated uh we wouldn't be facing some of those things so anyway I'll get off my so box I'd like to know what jender is going to be replacing or doing with 480 million well one of the things they are doing is um they have a school uh campus that was built in the 1950s oh and uh so needless to say that is you know that's a school campus that's on last legs and and whatever ever so they part of that money will be to replace that Elementary campus to build a whole new school um and um and then and then if you think about it if you've got six million square feet under roof I'm sure they have a list of projects of things that need to be done for us one of the things that I would be making sure we're doing is is fix is relocating the office at Fox Creek it's on our strategic plan yeah but we have no money to do that no money to do that um uh we don't even have money right now to to hire a an architect or an engineer to design what we want to do there you know kind of things so uh it just kind of put me in the uh making my Santa's list mood for that so anyway but it all has to do with think about it Chandler has all kinds of industry and all kinds of uh things that generate a big tax base it's not because of the taxes on homes and and uh residences and those kinds of things it's because they have the other tax base and so it's it's one of those examples of the halves and Have Nots and um and we are where we are so we do what we need to do the best we can so uh thanks for letting me be on my Soap Box a bit you have it anytime you want um 2.9 board member updates anybody got anything new I know I've got something that's unw I haven't been visiting the schools yeah neither have I I think that all of us should make a conscious effort to get out there this month and next month and I forgive December but yeah I'm thinking that just visiting the front office would be let them know that we're here and we care you can do that I'm going to make a big ch big push for myself yep uh the years gone so fast I said the years just gone by so fast sorry about that it's just like oh man just that yeah okay we're moving into the consent agenda um Caroline and I'm not sure exactly where these are but there were some Galileo reports one of the elementary schools I'm sure it's in um it's probably in Jen's report okay no was uh Cassie and I looked at this before the meeting uh Diamond Beck's report was say he was the principal keep going go there you go keep going down here right here yep it's the first it's the first round yeah so keep in mind they're tested on a whole lot of things that they haven't been talk but what uh I want to say because I looked at these last night and I went oh okay it looks compared to what we saw last year at this time this is such an improvement uh last year you know we're looking at no offense but you know we are looking at improvements here that we didn't see last year and uh just the fact that we've got that much more in the passing bench than what we've had before it was I was very happy to to see that on the different grade levels and stuff and I'm sure's glad to hear that and like like we were talking I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that um with this that these the the junior high and the middle school kids are still our Co kids where these third graders are not the co kids they came in after covid so they've been in the education and that the new process that we've got going in the schools is helping them we with the other with the upper levels we're still trying to play katchup from Co because it's four years out and so and that could be part of it they would have been kindergarteners um they would have been kindergarteners in in 20 so uh so they had a little bit of the yeah just a little bit but not compared to what the other kids have had and stuff so but yeah when I saw this I last night when I was looking at over I thought ah you know that we've got more blue and more green we have more blue yeah more blue ever seen you know it's usually like a little if we can even see the blue and so you know it's really great see get to see these from the other school too the other schools uh well we don't usually we don't usually show them by sight but Jen had it's on is your report last month last month oh last month okay have to go back last month go back and look at last month um but I was very Stephanie that's that ends up being good news for you to share with your staff and yeah I was very very happy with this still not happy with all the red but yeah at least we're moving in the right direction in a direction yeah okay thank you thanks and I'm I know that's consent to jender we probably should have talked about it in a different place but um any anything on the consent agenda that you would like to pull to talk about okay I need approval then for the uh consent agenda I make a motion that we accept the consent agenda as uh shown I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sasi hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred rushon hi Barb Zaraki okay moving on to Old business policy G CB d a housing for professional or staff members second reading I get we get to adopt this this time yes you do and remember this is an entirely new um this is an entirely new policy so yeah we read this last time and as I recall there was one little change you all wanted me to have to make and I did that and I'm trying to think where it is um did I get the spelling I think I went and fixed everything the next day after you all after we talked about it before I tried to do it while I was while it was still fresh okay oh uh in the third paragraph reasonable rates shall be charged for the housing so that the housing program is self-sufficient and that funds normally available for the instructional program are not diminished um it there was a bit of a qualifier in there in the past and and and you all ask that uh at Fred's uh suggestion that we tighten that up so I did yeah we were talking about electricity and all that stuff yes and and you can see the results uh in uh further in the agenda of my research into that so now it's really funny is because the S asba conference on the delegates on Saturday this was one of the big discussions that the asba is going to ask for the uh on the government um that not only rural areas but every area gets to you know do the affordable housing and the gentleman from Tempe was uh just really outraged that they would even think of doing this because it's cost going to be causing their taxpayers and everything and I listened to them for as long as I could and I got up and gave my two cents work and I said no I said we have this going in Bullhead right now we're in the process of building homes affordable homes for our teachers and I said it does not cost our taxpayers anything it's not coming out of our school funds it's separate and it was just it was a big discussion and so I was I was actually very pleasantly surprised when I was trying to put these together for you all and I said this last month but it Bears saying again that um uh uh two years ago I would not have been able to find s more than maybe two sample U policies or sets of things because the only places in the state that had teaches were on the reservations yeah uh but when I searched this time there were nine school districts that I that I pulled the information from there were more districts than that who had the policies so uh in two years time this has become a very a much more um viable option from for particularly rural districts um so it was nice to have lots you know lots of input from lots of areas yeah yeah but the metropolitan area it was it was so funny listening to all those you know those representatives and all the rural areas were all sitting there all going like this and a few of us got up and gave our two cents worth and said no no no no okay I think it's well done thank you um do I have a motion to adopt this the policy GD GCB da I make a motion we adopt the policy GC BDA housing for professional support staff do I have a second I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Barb ziki item 4.2 establish rent for the district employee housing units this is a revision it is a revision um last month you approved uh $1,200 but also pointed out uh that I probably should check on uh the cost for electricity and that kind of thing which I did um contacted U someone at um MEC because in the process of thinking about that last month uh yeah I'm thinking about it being an all electric home but I wasn't thinking about all the components of an electric home so uh electric stove electric refrigerator microwave washer dryer uh and HVAC uh and so uh I was told that anticipated U monthly uh electricity would probably be in the neighborhood of $250 um and so I tried to find I tried to round this off to a number that that I could come up with something reasonable for the breakdown you know for the bigger bedroom and the other two bedrooms so uh I just added $100 to the total it still keeps us below um uh the comps in town it's still you know by at least $200 and uh and most of those comps uh don't include utilities um and so even if we're spending 250 for um uh for electricity and we're spending say $100 a month for water and sewer um uh and then we're going to have trash collection and we're going to have some of those other expenses it's still allows us to have money in that account for repairs for replacement of things that need to be done and start building a a little um Kitty to build another house um without without G ing anybody and that is very reasonable because I know out at the college the rooms are $650 a month per student and there's six students to a pod wow and so you know like the master bedroom for 550 that's basically what theirs would be equivalent to out there and so you know it's it's very that's a good that's a good comparison did we um we had talked about about at the last meeting about um potentially putting a cap on water cap on electricity if they go over that cap yes and I um uh I can't remember if I actually built that into that regulation that we are looking at um uh but I also think it's the kind of thing we can watch at the beginning and then determine if we need to go back and add that so um okay you know it's a potential problem uh but I mean it may not be a problem but you know I hate to all of those specifics are in those regulations though so if we need to change those that this is a policy so right and the way we wrote it it this am well this isn't a policy but this is matches the policy and we've said in uh in the regulations that we wouldn't change this you know on the spur of the moment um but I think that that um uh the regulation also allows us to consider some of those other things so that doesn't change the fact that you could go back and put a cap you know we could go back and in one meeting change that piece or add that piece to their regulation okay um I need a motion to approve um establishing the establishing of rent for district employee housing units Madam president I do make a motion to approve this uh proposal that we have presented to us tonight the revision the the revised appro right what we're reading is there a second I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred Rushton i b ziki item 5.1 direction to seek replacement for vacant board members seat we are to give some direction to Cassie at this time um Madam president if I may um I think what you've got several things here that probably would be wise for you to decide do you want to advertise the vacant position um and um you know and put a deadline on on application and then consider uh replacements at the November meeting or at the December meeting or do you want to wait until after the election and wait until the new County superintendent's in place and say okay we will uh we will advertise it in December and interview candidates in January and and do that kind of thing I mean you've got you've got a window of time here um but it's it's up to you to decide how you want to lay out that uh that that schedule of events was going to be up and it was going to be up yeah yeah so if we waited till December and then interviewed in January that would make because yeah I think that's probably a cleaner way to handle it yeah andu would be the one who would approve it that way sounds good to is that what the feeling of the board was that say a two-year term or a foure term four fouryear term yeah cuz then that person can keep that seat for four years otherwise otherwise it might not happen that way right well if you do it if you were to do it now and you know interview somebody in November and appoint them they're really only only going to be there until January anyway so you know it makes more sense logically for you to do it for uh for January well Cassie I think the um I think the board is feeling we should advertise in December an interview in January and SE him in February and then be seated in February yeah if the rest of you guys are going all going to show up so that we have still a quorum right okay we have to do that I missed one meeting and she's picking on me already jeez I never pick on anybody 5.2 annual financial report yeah we need a motion for that we need a motion it is an action item even if it doesn't say that this was just I thought this was just a no in this case you have to take some action I need a motion then to give direction to Cassie okay I make a motion for the replacement of the vacant uh board member seat for Cassie to advertise it in December for us to interview in January and for the new board member to be seated in February of 2025 I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene di I Fred rushon I barbar yes sir does for ad well my thought is that that's an administrative decision and yes I was going to say I don't think that's our decision no that's an administrative decision because we only have one employee and she's always in trouble with us so it's okay 5.2 annual Financial reports school for fiscal year 24 uh Madam president this is the other uh the second big uh Financial uh item that happens every year um uh Jenny Beck has been U pulling her hair out and this is an annual pull your hair out activity uh it's probably actually more stressful and more uh difficult than than uh building the budget is but um this is this is sorting out what did we actually do with all of our funding uh in fiscal year 24 and and uh lays it out and uh reports uh how it is and then this document ends up being uh used by uh both the AG's office and by ad uh uh to give me numbers for a that revised budget that I'm telling you we're going to have to have and also for building the next budget so um this is this is the checks and balances this is the this is the system that says you said you were going to do it this way here's how you actually did it um and did you stay within your budgets uh the good news is yes we did but um uh it's the you know it is the one of these had that go up go up the top Cassie I knew one of these had that primary yep 1.6 I couldn't remember where it was y That's why I asked for the M I did a pretty good job of remembering that too impressed I'm impressed I didn't remember the 49 but I did the 1.65 so we'll probably keep you office 1.65 yeah there we go that's good thank you so this so you do need to approve it so that I can send it to uh uh post it tomorrow so that I stop getting the reminders from the AG's office and from ad that we have not yet filed our AFR okay I need a motion to approve um filing the annual Financial reports for school year for fiscal year 24 I'll make a motion that we uh approve the annual financial report for the fiscal year 2024 I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda soski I Charlene Diaz I Fred Rustin I Bara ziki 5.3 school year 20242 revision this and I'm sorry I missed the word calendar in there okay it is a calendar revision um uh and all we're doing is uh is uh recommending that we uh drop off the last four days of summer school in June of 25 uh we don't have 21st century funding and um uh in fact we have uh part of the reason for that is we knew we were going to have difficulty finding folks to fill positions and whatever and we decided to give it a rest for a year so uh the summer school this will essentially be stem and steam activity would be 8 days instead of 12 and so we're just U recommending the uh the dropping of those four days at the end of the uh summer school which days are those I'm the 9th through the 12th so they're no longer that uh gray color originally summer school went through the 12th of June oh okay all right got it um do I have a motion to adopt the new school year calendar for 2024 the revision excuse me it's not new school year calendar it's a revision of the calendar for 2024 25 I'll make a motion that we approve the revision of the school year calendar for 2425 I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda soski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Barb ziki that's too bad it is um um but it allows us to also to focus on stem and steam which is probably a good thing more fun anyway yeah item 5.4 asba bylaw vote um how do you want to handle this let's see you guys all received the the new bylaw right that they were talking about okay so we need to give our board secret we need to move to give our board dire our secretary whether we want to go yay or nay any comments on it I didn't see anything clearly there were issues that's true but I didn't see anything that was Earth shattering I mean nothing it's it's uh they cleared they've cleared up some of the problems that yeah nothing nothing stuck out to me so I'm I'm okay with it and I know at the asba conference there wasn't you know they a lot of it was uh just basically cleaning up some stuff and that and you know but everything that we discussed as delegates it was very cut and dry and stuff okay so do I have a motion to direct our secretary to give a uh a yay Vote for This president I'll make a motion that we direct our wonderful secretary to give asba our consent and agreement with this that we vote yay for all of this okay do I have a second I second it all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred Rushton I Barb ziki item 5.5 technology equipment disposal um okay so you can read The General ener information there um uh James went to uh three companies to to see about disposing um no longer usable equipment so for example uh we have a number of laptops that uh will not support Windows 11 and and can no longer be updated that's one example we have old Chromebooks we have old monitors we have all kinds of things um so uh he went to three companies and or four companies sorry um two included fees that we would have to pay for them to take things away uh one agreed to just take the stuff for free so it wouldn't cost us it wouldn't cost them and the fourth agreed to pay us uh $650 well guess which one we were recommending I can't imagine 650 is excuse me is better than zero so and better than paying so we're recommending um uh that we uh dispose of that equipment through uh through that method the reboot is that the one that we're talking reboot yeah okay do I have a motion to approve I'll make I'll make a motion that we approve the disposal of our technology unused technology whatever you want old technology uh to reboot technology I'll second the motion all those in favor I'm Melinda soski I Charlene Diaz I Fred Rushton i v there ziki 5.6 technology equipment transfer um as we have discontinued uh and wound down our uh our agreement with crushed uh for services for technology Services uh and we have replaced some equipment and those kinds of things uh we have some equipment that they could use and uh and and I'm just recommending that we transfer that equipment over to them uh no money just uh you know they can use it and that is allowable under procurement that we can uh we can uh give equipment or you know unusable or what in this case it's not doing us any good so it does no good for it to sit on a shelf and for us when somebody else could use it so this the same thing could be said for and and uh for like our books and our equipment and things that we have in our yard sale because we we could you know if somebody came to us uh from uh say one of the other CH one of the charter schools and and wanted uh some of those books and things uh we could legitimately just give them uh so this is in the same in the same uh set of you know set of behaviors that we can do so I'm recommending that this these 29 switches uh be given to crush do I have a motion to approve Madam president I make a motion that we transfer the technology equipment listed to crushed as recommended I second it all those in favor I'm Alinda saski hi Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I barar ziki okay item 5.7 revision to the principal evaluation tool uh Madam president the only right the only change because we we have we show these documents by we're supposed to and we do show these documents to our administrators just like we do to teachers before the school year um one of the things that I did not do at the time and uh and I feel that we're still within timeline to do this is the section here that you see in yellow uh where we increase uh the percentage of points for each of those categories uh from what it was in the past U these percentages 90 70 50 and less than 50 U match the percentages for those same categories on the teacher evalu ations for last year this year we upped those again on the teacher one so we're just a year behind on doing that on this one next year we will increase these recommend to increase these to be the same as they are for teachers for this year so um um I would appreciate approval of um just those changes in the designators and we're still within timeline timeline to do that we haven't started any evaluations and I mean I haven't started any administrative evaluations at this point um and uh and so they'll have plenty of notice for this okay do I have a motion to approve the revision of the principal evaluation tool I make a motion we approve the revision to the principes evaluation tool as presented I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Alinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Barb ziki item five 5.8 approval of educational travel club for Fox Creek um Madame President and board members if uh if you recall we had an educational travel Club at the Middle School uh a couple of years ago and um uh Mr Burgess has um had asked if we would consider um having that such a club at Fox Creek this year uh for the same purpose to go to uh Washington DC and and uh you know that kind of a government slash you know historical trip and so to have a club for that so uh he submitted uh this uh recommendation and of course ran it by their student council and whatever um so I I support the idea of having um an educational travel Club at Fox Creek and it would uh it probably would not the travel would probably not be this year it would be a year from now um uh but you know the work could start the work could start now I remember them coming back and just being all positive and enthusiastic yes yeah I'm glad that somebody's starting it up again yeah do I have an um motion to approve I'll make a motion that we approve yeah excuse me that we approved the educational travel club for Fox Creek oh second up motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred Rushton I Barb ziki item 5.9 policy gbea non-medical use or abuse of drugs or alcohol this is the second reading so we're we would adopt it Madam president this is the um this is that revision that I um presented last month and it's related to our uh regulations uh for the den project and for for the housing yeah remember this do I have a motion to adopt this Pol a policy gbea non-medical use or abuse of drugs or alcoholics I'll make a motion that we approve the policy gbea non-medical use or abuse of drugs or alcohol I'll second the motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Barb zerik another policy for our housing project 5.10 policy gbda housing Pro housing for professional staff members regulations and Exhibits um Madam president Bo board members these are all the regulations and Exhibits that go with the policy you approved in Old business okay and I did make uh I did make what the changes that you all um asked I also added one in um um I think it's gcbd A- [Music] RB uh if you'll scroll down please uh uh keep going it's under uh prohibited practices so it's on down and I added there we go I added item k at the advice of of Mark Scott our facilities director that uh we prohibit storing of items in the attics of the houses there are there are access panels to the attic because of course the hbac unit is up there and um and wiring and whatever but it's not designed for any storage so I thought this was a good addition to this one okay otherwise all of these exhibits and and uh regulations are as presented or corrected last month uh and I recommend that you approve them are we approving them all as you can approve in this case you can approve all of them simultaneously Madam president I'll make a motion that we adopt these policies and improve them uh as a lot the gcbda five policies listed okay these are regulations and Exhibits exhibit exhibits I'm sorry do I have a second I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rush I bar ziki item 5.11 policy baa evaluation of school board board self- evaluation this is the first reading of this has anything changed no these were the these are the ones that you reviewed in the workshop so if you wanted to you can just zip right through I mean you're not taking any action it's first reading anyway I think' seen this one right yeah these were all in the workshop yeah okay item uh 5.13 policy DJ bidding and purchasing Pro procedures this the first reading we discussed this one also you skipped 5.1 to I forget that one 5.1 to policy bbba board member qualification oh yeah that's I was concerned I was concerned about me um item four 5.14 policy GCF professional staff hiring we discuss that one item 5.15 policy gcfc professional C staff certification and credentialing we did that one support well item 5.16 policy G gdf support staff hiring we did that one 5.17 policy gdfa support staff qualification and requirements do I have to go through all of these I probably you only have four you only have five left okay 5.18 policy IGA curriculum development we did that one I Pol or 5.19 policy if IH basic instructional program pramming that one also 5.20 policy IMG animals and school policy 5.21 oh excuse me 5.21 policy jfb in open enrollment and the last one 5.22 policy jhd exclusions and exemptions from School attendance we'll see those again next month next month and all the regulations that were in the workshop that don't have to have two readings all those will we have a quorum if I'm not here okay here we go item 6.1 future topics are there any topics we would like to have uh researched or we would like to discuss next time thing okay I can think of nothing up and Lance of course has produced a fine document of things where I should be and things where I'm not going to be is it ever a good idea for one of us or some of us or to to at The Crush board I think that's your choice I mean I mean if you were there you would be there as a citizen you're not there as a board member or at the city okay I mean the same is true technically at the city council if you know if you're there you're there as a you're there as a private citizen um uh just what it show but sometimes there's you know sometimes there's value in Optics yeah that's what I'm saying is there value the problem is most of those are on Tuesday nights so that creates an issue that creates some of big issue yeah great a few was sitting up here I mean you know one one of the and I know you're not asking this but um uh there are many Community things that I try to put in an appearance you know I might go and stay 20 minutes or 15 minutes but the issue is the Optics because we get a lot of support support from the community and and I feel it's important that the community see me supporting them on behalf of the district um um but then that all you know but that that kind of relieves you all of some of that unless you choose to do so well keep us appraised of where you're going and and if you'd like a partner that would be something that we should probably do thank you Lance for doing this for us is there a are we going to have have a meeting in November we are I don't see one listed well oh yeah so the DAT I thought we were going to get a month off date is November 14th I have November 14th 5:30 item 6.3 date time location for future meeting um our normal meeting would be November 14th at 5:30 for workshop and 6 for regular meeting does anybody not be able to be here no I'm good I'm good I'm looking I'm here okay then we are going to have a meeting on November 14th 2024 at 5:30 and again at 6 so Cassie are we going to have a forum for I'm going to be there and I'll be there I'll be there so yes we are going to have a quum and since you're mentioning that um I will be going to the ASA conference in Tucson uh for Sunday Monday Tuesday I'm sure that it ends about noon on Tuesday but getting back here by 4:30 from Tucson is probably unlikely um but I will I will come as soon as I get back I mean I will come directly here but uh for some for some reason at the time I wasn't thinking about those times um but I don't think I mean I I doubt I'd get back here by 4:30 without getting a ticket somewhere so which would end up slowing me down so or several tickets maybe maybe while we while we're talking about that meeting I want to thank Cassie for organizing and doing whatever she does behind the scenes that make us look good thank you very much appreciate it do I have a motion to adjourn I make a motion we adjourn the meeting at 7:29 I'll Second That Emotion emotion what a great song title yes I am all those in favor I'm Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz hi Fred rushin hi biki we are now officially adjourned thank you [Music]

e e e good evening at this time we'll begin the meeting and we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance thank you and we'll start with the uh item B1 recognitions and celebrations Dr croo thank you Madame President good evening tonight we have a special performance and Mr muy will introduce our guests thank you madam president members of the board Dr CTO a guests tonight we have from Will and Canyon High School under direction of Mr Logan McDonald their choir is here to perform so take it away sir thank you so he kids Legends and gods give them Applause we made it against [Music] but don't you let it bring you down breaking out of your small town show them what you're all about for the people in the contemplating hereo the atmosphere laugh me through your crocodile tears as your moment disaar hey kids leg and gods app OD choose yourap [Music] ofice louder louder you're not [Music] alone you're [Music] alone when the S comes on turn it up turn it up all choose yourap of [Music] choice say it louder for the people in the back [Applause] thank you so much for having excellent job thank you so much good J great job thank you have a great night also after the meeting Val concer is across the street go support the next up we have item C1 audience with individuals we do have two this evening I'll go ahead and read the statement this is a 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 38-43 1.01 action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date in order to facilitate accomplishing the business of the district in a timely manner a time limit of 3 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 first we have Veronica Ramirez good evening uh board members my name is Veronica Ramirez and I'm speaking as a representative for surprise volleyball Academy also known as as SVA SVA has been present in the daart Unified School District for over 15 years and we've been very grateful for the dist for the district providing afford affordable facility usage for our small Sports Club adiana Ramirez the club director was notified by email on June 18th about the new fiscal year agreements and rates which originally did not seem out of the ordinary since the rates they've been paying are 25 an hour for a k through e gym rental and the doc still showed the same fees when we went to pay for our October facility JY rental we noticed that there was an extra $35 charge being applied per hour this 35 extra fee is under site specialist utility and custodial fee form States the utility and custodial fee applies during all events that include Patron viewing in addition to current fee structure um side note ours is not a patron viewing um more than half of sba's participants attend schools within the diart school district and we have been so grateful for the $25 an hour fee which has helped keep our fees low and has benefited many of the dice heart school athletes and families with with this 35 an hour charge in addition the hourly fee of 25 it has more than doubled that what we would be paying it is understandable if the price does not does need to be increased due to the utility but in regards to maintenance our club never leaves a mess or requires setup or takedown and we always pick up after ourselves again there's no mess that we create since we are there to use the courts for practice only this does not include Patron viewing as indicated above also the majority of the girls bring their own reusable water bottles so no trash is Left Behind prior to leaving our coaches do double check to make sure that everything the girls brought back is taken we are seeking to understand this additional fee and charge if and if it does apply to us in addition it also States 4 hours minimum which can be interpreted in many ways since the fee increases are passed by the board we were hoping to get clarification and understanding if this is a fee that we are required to pay can this be be decreased or even put on a slighting scale of degree of use for the site specialist utility and custodial fee again we are a small club that would like to keep our prices as affordable as possible to help provide provide the youth volleyball skills and to help the athletes grow not only in volleyball but also character and bring that skill and character back to the daart Unified School District Athletics thank you for your time uh she will be sending a follow-up email thank you next we have Steve Gilliam good evening resident of el marage 20 21 years and taxpayer uh it's a little constructive criticism tonight I take exception to the uh this thing that was put out uh dealing with the bond issue and I it's my personal opinion that the Kevin soter situation what he put in there is offensive to me and the people in El Mirage it talks about the surprise people what about the six schools in El Mirage what about the one down in Glendale Luke nothing about that it's only he's doing stuff uh for surprise you know PE kids and stuff that's offensive to me and it's all of us that are paying we pay the same percentage of taxes over there that everybody in Surprise pays so I take exception to that it seems funny that there was seven pros and one con to this situation and uh uh you know you it's talking about he's talking about uh increased security well I've got pictures I can show and there's a gentleman to my left in here that took care of the situation Surprise Elementary School unless none of you have been there it backs up to a wash that's not protected deviates transits all kinds of activity takes place in that wash right on the back side of that school elementary school I took three uh security people for a little walk of the school and showed them there was a tree and I have pictures of it I can show you there was a tree that was overgrown from the private property over to the school property and there was people living underneath there all they had to do is reach over and grab Susie or Bobby and pull them over the fence and have their way with them that tree shouldn't have been there it was eliminated there's a block fence that is right outside the little chain link G as you send the kids South to our neighborhood the block fence is 10 10 or 15 ft of has been tore down drug activity has been happening there and that's either HOA property or city of Elmore rise property and today tonight on the way over nobody's taken care of it it's still there the the blocks were removed but the vacant place the hole is still there on the way here also I looked at about 100 ft of solar panels that back up to the wash it's littered with rocks on it because the deviants go down there and Chuck The Rocks right on it who put a solar panels back there on that I know it was nobody in here I don't think but whoever put them there for whatever reason 100 yards away from the school was stupid the kids don't go inne there for shade but the Deviant throw rocks on top of it and they're breaking it that's uh it's not acceptable that you want more money to do what you can't do in the first place if you can't take care of a you don't move on to to Z and start doing a new thing new projects new new this new that if you don't maintain what you got don't start any new stuff thank you Mr Gilliam thank you that's all we have okay thank you and Dr curo can you um follow up with the two speakers tonight as well as the board uh yes Madam president I will be glad to do that great thank you so much all right moving to D2 superintendent update thank you madam president well we've had a great week and some great times um in our district and so um beginning of this week we had uh a huge celebration in Shadow Ridge High School for the National Blue Ribbon um and I know we many of you joined and and also saw the news coverage on that and our state superintendent was out there to celebrate the school and and the kids had a huge um event on campus and did a great job celebrating their success and and we're proud of them so congratulations to them uh just yesterday our principal of Mountain View Elementary Miss Debbie Cruz she was awarded the GCU principal the month award from Grand Canyon University so they came to the principal meeting and award her that um so congratulations to Debbie and she was nominated by her faculty and staff so um it's a great great thing there and uh next week coming up um is fall break the much awaited fall break so we hope the temperatures start to drop and everybody can enjoy their fall break and come back to finish out the year so that's all I have thank you next we have governing board update let's see um I attended the turf dedication at Valley Vista High School so that now all the high schools have a a beautiful Turf now for the for all of their activities um I also went to the Golden Rule Interfaith breakfast and attended one of the informational hearings on the bond and thank you Dr Cotto and your cabinet for the presentation and education about the bond and answering all the residents questions um I also attend attended the Blue Ribbon honor celebration at Shadow Ridge High School and thank you to Mr horn for coming and presenting the plaque and October is principal's month so we have some several amazing principles in the audience tonight and for those that aren't here but regardless thank you to all of you for what you do every single day and congratulations to Miss Cruz um I have quite the list so be prepared um on the 20th of September I also attended the Valley Vista field dedication um beautiful field congratulations to Valley Vista and shout out to the culinary team the food that they that they served was it was outstanding and so was their service so congratulations to them um I attended the um um governing board candidate meeting so good luck to our candidates that are running um then I went to a couple School visits um our first one was on the 25th with uh Kingswood and I just want to say thank you um for the great discussions and uh visiting with all the staff and the kids so we had a good time um also did a school visit with Valley Vista um that was that was wonderful too had great discussions with everybody and then that evening I attended a drug presentation um also at Valley Vista um and thank you to the SRO that attended um it's it was it was nice to see um their participation their knowledge um information that they that they gave to the community so thank you um and then I also attended the Shadow Ridge Blue Ribbon ceremony and am so excited for them that that is a great honor um so congratulations to the students staff and parents so good job for your your hard work and dedication so it paid off thank you I would also like to say congratulations to Shadow on achieving Blue Ribbon School status that's quite quite an honor so congratulations to your staff and your students very nice um I also attended the candidate meeting the board candidate meeting a couple weeks ago right been a couple weeks um very informational thank you to cabinet and to Dr Coto for sharing that information with our candidates I feel like it's it's always good for candidates to know kind of what they're stepping into and I would just encourage everybody just to get out and vote um it's very important that you vote so please vote thank you apologize for the repetition but I also attended the Valley Vista field dedication um want to Echo M Drake's sentiment in regard to the wonderful job that they did um Mr Frasier and his team it was just beautifully set up um The Culinary team or um class and and Club um Not only was a food great but just their presentation I mean the tables were decorated beautifully it just definitely above and beyond um so it was a great evening and it was nice to dedicate that field um long awaited um also want to congratulate principal Hester and her whole team at Shadow Ridge for being named National Blue Ribbon School that's such a huge accomplishment and it's exciting that we have a Blue Ribbon School in our district so congratulations to them as well as to Mountain View's principal Debbie Cruz for being named uh Grand Canon University's principal of the month so lots of things to celebrate and I hope you all have a relaxing and fun fall break thank you I'm probably going to be a little bit out of order here um I also attended uh one of the bond presentations uh this one was at the Assante Library it was great information presented and very well received lots of questions um and our cabinet was was there and ready to to answer them I don't why am I echoing so much um I also attended the shadow rid Blue Ribbon uh award ceremony and big thank you to superintendent horn for being present there to present um Mrs huster with that award and and Shadow Ridge with that award congratulations to all of our students and staff and parents uh I also attended two of the um two of the four drug awareness presentations uh these were at Willow Canyon and Valley Vista great information presented by our safety team as well as several SCH resource officers that were present and just great information for any parents there's still one coming up I believe at diart high school and that is just after the fall break so if you are interested it's it's great information I also attended the Valley Vista um Turf ribbon cutting uh ceremony that was excellent and as you can tell the food was great um this morning I attended the freedom TR quarterly recognition for students and it was just such a great uh morning spending spent with our students that have worked really hard for that uh and that is all I have thank you all right uh moving to the consent agenda item item E1 I will entertain a motion I move the governing board approv consent agenda items as presented motion carries moving to item G1 Dr Coto thank you madam president uh tonight we continue on with our continuous Improvement reports um and Dr asai will introduce our guests good evening Madame President members of the board it is my pleasure to introduce Miss Ginger Richards the proud principal of simaran Springs hi everyone good evening Madam president governing board Dr Coto and cabinet my name is ginger Richards and I am the very proud principal of Simon Springs Middle School I would like to share with you the latest news coming out of simron Springs from our last year so these are our aasa and AI proficiency data academics overall increase School average for ELA was 7% and that is 14% over over the state average we had a very small decrease in math by 2% but we still maintained a 6% over the state average we had a small even smaller decrease in science by 1% but a still an 8% over the state average our aasa growth data we are proud of our Ela growth data with two of our teachers being ranked the second highest in the district district for their growth at their respective grade levels in math we were very close to the 1.0 growth goal with a 0.93 we continue to focus on math improvement with our students which we will talk about later in more detail I do want to mention that two of my math teachers kind of like Ela were number two and number three respectively um in their grade levels um in the district and as for growth we really really want to celebrate um my e8th grade math who had a growth score average of 1.48 for our aella um the aella test um is tests our English language Learners and monitors their growth in areas of speaking Reading Writing and listening we are tremendously proud of our success last year yes we only had 13 students who qualified to take the aella but 46% of those students showed Proficiency in English and tested out of the aella so we're very proud of that we do have three um Improvement goals of course we have academic um safety and culture all of these enhance our um school and make our school um an environment in which students can learn and grow every day for the entire year we do have challenges though um we are listing um opening of a new school and realigned to more High School like structure and most of those challenges were taken care of last summer before the school even opened so we worked very hard over the summer to ensure that we had the new opening of our true six through eight Middle School um as for the academic goals we plan to grow proficiency of course in math and science um we are implementing the collaborative team structures in addition to working on best practices during our principal meetings thanks to Shelly and her team and we also have coaching from Solutions tree and we really want to thank the district for providing the solutions Street coaching it's been a great help for intervention in math we work to focus students um for Math and Ela in what we call our Derby Day intervention we use many different data points to focus on students who need intervention and schedule them into Derby Day uh Derby Day is like um stormat at Valley Vista or uh what is the one at Shadow called stride thank you stride at at shadow um additionally we have increased our walkthroughs and discussions with science teachers and we utilize our science curriculum Specialists to assist with planning and test prep as for celebrations I could talk the rest of the evening about my school because I think that everything that we're doing there is continuing the growth of our samron Springs Middle School into a model middle school but some of the biggest celebrations that we have are the Derby Day um once you hit the Middle School level it is difficult to schedule in great intervention time and I think we did a fantastic job of that and our teachers are really getting used to choosing kids and making sure that we are looking at by standard by student who needs to be in which intervention class for Derby Day and then rewarding those who um are doing very well with um enrichment strategies so that is going excellent of course we um integrated approximately 300 new students into our school this year and about 36 new staff members which is half of our staff is brand new to our our our school campus this year um also we have as our Ela success is over the one point growth data and aella almost tripled the number of students in reclassifying so both of those are huge celebrations for us as well um and as I always say at the end of the announcements at Simon that's the news and go stallions I will stand for questions at this time thank you I I I think it's incredible growth on especially with the aella the kids are testing out that's that's amazing um I do have a question sure um how how are the students embracing the true Middle School model like how how is that I is it seems to be a very positive thing is that what you're seeing from I perspective would invite you to come walk my campus at any time during any day and especially hang out at lunches and talk with the students I do that every day myself so I think I'm a little bit biased but every time I ask how they like the Middle School model they're like it it's great it's really different um the hallways are pretty crowded but but they're like we get to eat cheeseburgers every day like they you know and they're all over the building now um instead of just you know one hallway or the younger kids in the bottom hallway and the older kids in the upper hallway they are all over that building and they're really getting used to what it's going to be like in high school so they're really enjoying it it I can tell you I was so stressed about opening this school year and um it has been the most positive smooth this opening in my seven years of being a principal at simron Springs so it's been really fantastic that's wonderful to hear thank you just want to say congratulations on your great scores and I think you should you should share the names of these wonderful teachers you second in the district did you say and for growth uh yes the ELA is two teachers that were um second for growth that would be um Lara Douglas and one teacher who is now at Valley Vista that was Amanda Grady so both of those um and then in math is our eighth grade math Mr Kirchner and our sixth grade math teacher um Michael Church wow well congratulations to them you're very lucky to have them as I'm sure you know and I'm very thankful to have them in our district as well they're definitely driving positive change academically and probably more than just academically I'm sure they're just making a great impact so thank you for sharing their names and um for all the great work that you're doing sure absolutely thank you congratulations as everyone has said um I really love that you have as a celebration the integration of the 300 new students and you didn't make that a challenge so I'm so impressed with that um I I'm loving to see the numbers um you know with with positive growth and um well above the state average so thank you so much for all of you all that you're doing well thank you it's a pleasure I love it every day thank you yeah I also want to just piggyback fantastic job the numbers are wonderful keep up the good work your staff's doing wonderful thank you thank you and next we have the feeder school to simron Springs the incredible St Brown principal of Western Peaks Elementary good evening Madame President board members Dr Coto and cabinet I am very uh proud to be here today and uh talk to you about our uh School Improvement that we've been going through at Western Peaks our continued Improvement um let's see here okay there we go I know how to work it um on our aasa this year uh in or this past year in ela and math we did go down slightly from the year before that um 3% in ela and 1% in math however we still remain um 20% above the state average in ela and 27% above average in math so while we don't want to go down we are happy we are staying well above and have a goal to increase that much more we do not have ai for last year because we were just a K4 school last year um but we're excited because now we have fifth grade and so um we will be able to include that data for next year for our growth on the asasa we did have the medium average growth um slightly above the state average 1.09 for ELA and 1.1 for math so we were um happy with that growth and on our aella we had just under 30 kids um who qualify for El and we are incredibly proud of the growth that we made with the aella uh 27% of our students um were immediate were intermediate and we went on proficient from 11% in the 2022 23 year to to 38% proficient last year and so we are just tremendously proud of that growth in Proficiency in language some of our celebrations are that we are well above State average in ela and math we continue to push ourselves to improve ourselves we know we're doing better than the state average but we want to do better than we've done each year before that uh we also have made growth in both Ela and math and the celebration with the zel proficiency um that it's just phenomenal um I remember when Dr asai called me and told me of our proficiency level and I was like Wow and she said what are you guys doing and and truly we have just honed in on that targeted El instruction or English instruction and the integrated instruction in every classroom and it has paid off because our students are definitely benefiting from that we also I didn't think about it but as I listened to Ginger share about uh Simon We with the addition of fifth grade it feels like we really don't have different people it's our same kids that were from fourth grade just as fifth graders now but we did increase with um teachers so we have some new teachers and it's the K5 model is going very well and we love having everyone it's it it just feels like they've always been there even our teachers um in thinking of challenges I wanted to be able to talk about really what our biggest challenge is that I think is affecting us overall as a school and that is that um we have continued to have a large number of students needing tier 2 instruction um tier 2 intervention and so we had to really get down and look at the why of that why do so many kids need intervention why is that tier one that should work for the majority of students not working for enough and so this year to support that we are doing professional development for um using the Strategic instructional design that we've learned through spark teaching them um how to in the middle of their lesson use ramp which stands for reteach abandon move on or practice and really getting into being able to pull small groups make adjustments on the fly during tier one instruction and um extend for those kids who already have it so that we can really catch more kids during tier one before we move on to tier two also um having all teachers align their instructional objective learning activities and formative assessments to the standards we've been very heavily focused on that and having the teachers pull small groups during tier one our teachers have been phenomenal with tier 2 small groups um but not all doing it during tier one so we've been looking at how to structure their tier one time how to lesson plan to create that time for small groups during tier one so that's how we've we are addressing it uh for our goal we have um a few different academic goals because we don't want to just focus on our third through fifth graders who are taking the assessments but we want to focus on the K2 kids also because we know that we have to build the foundation for them to do better when they get to third and fourth and fifth grade so we want to have 1% or 1.0 or greater growth uh for ELA and math for fourth and fifth grades for ELA and math proficiency we want to increase by 3% or more we also wanted to look at our third grade minimally proficient Ela students and we want to decrease that number by 10% this year because we did not gain those points last year from the aasa um all also we want uh at least 55% of fifth grade students to be proficient in science this is our Baseline year and um so of course we want to increase that but we want to start to make sure at least 55% do that and then we want 20% of our yell students to reclassify to a higher proficiency level and we want our Kinder through third grade students to increase the percent of students at or above Benchmark by 5% by the end of the year uh some things that we're doing to make sure that that happens is through tier one small groups intervention groups during tier 2 our PLC teams are creating smart goals for each unit that they um plan for Math and Ela and then each PLC team is also identifying a specific teaching strategy that they will all employ during that unit to um help improve instruction as well and then our teachers and students are tracked Mastery of the essential standards so students have their own tracking sheets and then teachers are tracking that as well so that we can make sure all of our students uh reach that Mastery level this is some examples of how they track so this is like um first and second grade students tracking their own data and then this is higher level this is fourth grade students tracking their own data and they also set their own goals too so for goal two we want to um decrease behaviors in the classroom and increase student engagement and so last year when we were examining our student discipline uh we saw that most of the behaviors most of the referrals were the incidents were occurring in the classroom and that alarmed us because we know with really good classroom management we should not have that high of behaviors and so we we are focusing by increasing student engagement to keep kids very engaged and busy in class but also doing work with our teachers on healthy classrooms and then last summer um at the PLC Summit we learned about using the PLC at work process to teach essential behaviors and then to provide interventions for students and so we are also implementing that this year and then goal three is to increase our percent of parents and staff who would likely or very likely recommend our school from 84% to 87% and in addition to all of the wonderful things we do at at the uh Western Peaks Elementary School we also are doing things like really trying our best no matter who they're working with who a parent a visitor works with that they're having excellent customer service um that we are supporting our staff because sometimes they feel very overwhelmed and stressed and so as administ ation myself and my assistant principal we work really hard to make sure they feel supported and we can do whatever we can to help them and then also we um have multiple student extracurricular clubs at the K5 school to get our kids very involved in their school because we think if we can build that foundation in K5 then as they go into middle school and into high school they will be set up to be active participants of their school community and and so we are going to continue doing that with multiple types of clubs and with that I'll stand for questions that was amazing is that was that our last CIP of the year no okay I gonna say well you said the bar high I'll tell you great job than um the way that you I love all of your measurable goal I mean how you made each goal very measurable by your percentages throughout um the fact you took so much time to really do a deep dive into why there's a larger number of students in need of tier 2 intervention and then my goodness that aella proficiency that's just amazing thank you great job thanks for everything that you're doing thank you I will also say thank you for all your hard work I mean 60% average proficiency for laa and math is a lot higher than we see you know across the state in different areas um and especially with what we learned through the study session that the test is kind of rigged to where you don't get to be proficient so I you know and I I feel like maybe we should do an information item on that for everybody because looking at and seeing that 60% of your students demon demonstrated proficiency on this test doesn't mean that that more students weren't proficient in their objectives in their state standards but this this is a very significant achievement especially for a test that's designed to I don't know I feel like it's basically rigged itself kind of um but that's that's incredible and thank you for accepting our fifth grade students and our K5 school so we can actually have a true Middle School I I feel like there's just such a big difference between fifth grade and sixth grade yes and if if you've ever taught freshman if you've ever taught freshman who come from a K8 school they're just they're just fun because they don't know how to be at high school they just don't you know they've been babied from this classroom to this classroom to this classroom and they they haven't been taught okay this is how you behave in the Halls you walk by yourself and this is what you do you know so I really appreciate you and Miss Richards for I guess kind of pioneering or piloting that in our district I know that's kind of a big undertaking for you both but I just thank you thank you for doing that it's all it's my pleasure we love having our kids another year longer we we always hate to say goodbye to them um but and we're doing everything that we can to kind of start preparing them for that middle school so they kind of have their own hallway fifth grade does away from everyone else and uh they're switching classes and things like that so we're trying to ease them into that Middle School model thank you and I just wanted to say this is this is wonderful your your numbers your goals everything is there anything else that we can do to help you with the tier two is there anything else that you know the district can help you with I know you guys kind of have this handled but if if you have a lot of students that are are needing this if there's anything else we can help you with you know um I'll have to think about that and and follow up with you if I can yeah um I know you know our teachers work so hard every single one of them um and and we have you know we follow that District scope and sequence and we we have a it's a pretty rigorous schedule um sometimes I think if we were able to have a few more days you know on certain Concepts um we might be able to reach some more kids but overall each teachers doing everything in their power to work with the kids before school after school during intervention time um so I think it's just a matter of helping you know not everything has to be taught whole group and and I think that's it's just kind of an an understanding and moving into that with all of our teachers some of our teachers Do It um but not all and so you know they're they're doing a great job of making those adjustments this year I have fantastic teachers I was going to suggest before or after school but if they're already working at that that's awesome yeah great absolutely thank you thank you thank you so much everything that everyone has already said but I just also want to ress you know I really appreciate the level of detail that you put into this thank you thank you okay okay moving to item G2 Dr croo thank you madam president uh tonight uh Miss pel will bring to you um the expenditure analysis of our M override so not to be confused with the bond but we currently have an override this is is required by law that we do this every year and she report out so M Mel it is yours thank you Dr CTO Madam president members of the board cabinet and Community um as Dr CTO mentioned tonight I have the information related to our M override it is a voter approved initiative um and it provides additional supports for our students so first of all I do want to thank the take the opportunity to thank our community and our taxpayers for their support in providing this additional funding source so why the meeting um we are uh required by Statute 15481 to share this information a public meeting between those dates of September 1st and October 31st at which um we provide an update on the programs that are being funded through the override and so it allows an opportunity for our community to be informed on this initiative so daar as mentioned it currently has an override in place it is uh approved for 15% of our Revenue control limit um for fiscal year 24 that that amount is noted there about $24.5 million is what is funded and added to the maintenance and operations budget capacity limit it is approved for a total of s years um however as noted there it is funded for the First full five years so it was implemented in um fiscal year 2122 was year 1 we are currently in year four of that override on that timeline and so um it's approved for full funding through 2526 if not approved for continuation it does start phasing out by a third every year uh with it being fully phased out after fiscal year 2728 so the purpose of our approved maintenance and operation override is noted there um it supports our current programs as well as it focuses on expenses such as t uh teacher salaries and benefits and so um these are the items that were noted in the voter pamphlet at the time um and so we'll go over in a little bit more detail of the funding um supporting those those areas so as a reminder the override is funded through maintenance and operations so it cannot be used for any Capital items this is solely um teacher salaries benefit benefits staff salaries and benefits as well as any program costs that are non- capital items um so in fiscal year 2425 the override was spent in those areas identified here in the pamphlet and we see about 2.2 million provided for compensation for uh funding for teachers class siiz reduction was about uh 9.6 million of the override and it's really to maintain the current levels that are in place right now that are funded um through the override knowing that if it wasn't in place we would potentially have to look at those ratios and those class sizes um as was no is it would no longer be supported um by this additional almost $10 million the reading and math supports as well as Music Arts and Athletics are provided um account for about 10.2 million of the override amount and full day K so um that portion that's supported by the override accounts for half the FTE of our kindergarten teachers and so that totals $2.5 million so in total we see those outlined expenses is a $24.5 million for the fiscal year 2324 and as noted the override is supported through a secondary tax rate and so this slide provides a history over the last nine years you see um in in fiscal year TW sorry 20156 is when it was starting to get phased out and so that's why you see that lower amount it was renewed and so now in 2324 is at 24.5 for a126 per 100 assessed valuation and so um in fiscal year 2425 um just for context currently it's a $25.5 million for do8 um and so at this point that's just a brief update on our override but I'd be more than happy to answer any questions I don't know if you can answer this but with the um the 9.6 million portion that goes towards the class size reduction can you give us a comparison of what that would look like with and without the override maybe like an [Music] average I'd have to because in general that amount is about 130 teachers or so and so to go through we'd really have to analyze what that ratio would look like um okay really kind of revisiting what that classroom size structure would be um so I don't want to necessarily provide one at this level because it would vary also based on grade levels and a K8 versus a high school level too okay but it would have an impact since it funds a pretty significant amount of teachers in there it's about 10 she said 30 maybe a little bit more up to 160 teachers that's what that 9.6 is equivalent to right but we couldn't say like okay right now I'm just going to throw out numbers these are not real right now we have a average classroom size of 28 it might go up to X we don't we don't have that figure Madam president uh off the top of our heads we don't uh we'd have to go through and and see where the reductions would be in those hund and we'll just call it 50ish teachers um they would go up significantly I can tell you that I mean just by sheer numbers but we can figure that out yeah just curious okay any other questions okay thank you so much for the presentation I haven't moved yet um in regard to revisiting that the the override as far as um discussing whether or not that would go on a ballot again when would those conversations start happening Madam president um member brard um well the next year is the last year of that so it would have to it's going to actually start pretty soon um and we need to have that discussion of whether we are going going to put that committee back if you remember the committee that we had discuss both and they did discuss that so um we need to decide if we want to reconvene that committee or we want to start with a whole new one uh the nice thing is uh that committee that looked at the two issues they know a lot of background on it already so um that that will be coming in the next few months okay because we need to be ready to go into the cycle for obviously the following election cycle okay thank you love call for questions all right thank you moving to action discussion H2 Dr Coto H1 I so sorry H1 thank you madam president um tonight you might have seen the smile on Mary Dell's face because she gets to do the annual financial report tonight and that's like the Super Bowl of her year so um with that um we have Miss Bidell again doing our AFR thank you Dr Cotto again Madam president members of the board cabinet and Community tonight yes I am very pleased to be presenting um our financial summary information for the 2324 fiscal year it is a very long process um I do before I get started really want to um give a shout out to a few of our finance staff back there one of our budget analysts and accounting coordinator they do the heavy lifting so I've really got to give them um commend them for all their hard work it's a very detailed process all of this while last week we had our external Auditors here too so it's a simultaneously working on on reports it just really compiles all of the general ledger for the fiscal year so we'll briefly go over that but would be remiss if I did not thank them for all their hard work so again our annual financial report it provides information on all the district's finan cial activity for this past fiscal year uh we compile it as required by the board to um to be approved by the board by October 15th and so after the board's review we will then be submitting it to ad by that deadline um at that point once it's submitted to ad it then starts being reviewed reviewed by a number of of agencies really the auditor general then starts reviewing it to be sure that we're um in financial compliance they look to make sure the coding is accurate they then start calculating their dollars in the classroom report so and then a lot of the information on we we use to compile our annual comprehensive financial report statements which is what we then submit for Awards as well so this is really just the the starting point for all of the financial uh reports that come from that point on so we'll Begin by reviewing just high level um some of our our main funds so maintenance and operations as you know that is our largest fund so it accounts for our salaries and benefits it accounts for um supplies purchase Services utilities Transportation costs really this is the operating um backbone for the entire district and so here we see the breakdown by program area so regular education accounted for 67.8% of the budget um expenditures special ad was 25.5 Transportation accounted for 6.2 and the K3 reading program was 0.5 um% of the of the total expenditures so in total you see the budget that had been approved for fiscal year 2324 was at 22.7 million with actual expenditures of 183.2 so it did leave approximately a 19 and a half million budget balance but I do want to um just kind of remind on the board as you previously remember we did approve or the government board approved that retention stien to be paid out later this fall so there is a big uh portion of that that is earmarked specifically for that retention stien so that'll be paid out um later next month as well as um a few months ago a fund balance policy was approved by the governing board and that was in order for us to start increasing and targeting a reserve amount from our budget in order to ensure that we are well poised for just any changes in in funding and so this is definitely targeting towards that goal that we've that we've set our unrestricted Capital fund that is um what is also known as District additional assistance this is the main piece that we receive from um the state we usually receive about $13 million um that budget amount of 19.8 accounted for the prior years's carry forward so that's what you see um total expenditures was 14 million so we are carrying over about 5.8 million just to continue to support that fund's capital projects and ensure that we also leave a healthy Reserve just in case of any unanticipated expenses in capital the emergency building renewal grant program that's the funding that we receive through applying to the state um to the school facilities board um this had 7.

check one two one two oh my goodness oh [Music] yeah okay e e e on get up are you guys [Music] ready I'm goingon to call the meeting to order please roll call M mcris present Mr halt present Mr Willard I'm here Dr Lopez and Mr Carlson are absent um can I get a motion to adopt the agenda I move that we adopt the agenda second any discussion okay all in favor I let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence please flag the United States of America to the stands na indivisible andice thank you um Dr streer presentations and recognitions yes okay we have a we have a fun recognition this evening we get to uh celebrate our Ron leaders and education award finalists so before I jump into this I am gonna ask Tony petiti uh Lindsay Laura and Danielle schroer to join me up front [Applause] the first time I told you what to do you the other way so this evening we would like to recognize three outstanding Educators who have been named rathon leaders and education award finalists joining me up front are T petiti prek teacher at pal preschool Lindsay Laura prek teacher at pal preschool and Danielle schroer anatomy and physiology and biology teacher at Mountain View High School you can give them a round of [Applause] applause so the Ron annual leaders and education award is designed to recognize the contributions of pumac County Teachers the program honors exceptionally skilled and dedicated teachers in prek through 12 in all content areas nominees are teachers who have gained the respect and admiration of students parents and colleagues and who Inspire students of all backgrounds and abilities to learn they distinguish themselves as leaders and play an active and useful role in their communities and in their schools of the 12 rathon finalists four winners will be selected through a comprehensive review process and announced at a Tucson values teachers stand up for teachers ceremony on November 7th winners will receive $2,500 each plus an additional $2,500 in matching gifts to each of the teachers respective schools I'm going to say congratulations to each of you but before I say that again they could not have picked a better group of finalists these are some outstanding Educators in Mirana part of some power couples in Morana I have to I they told me to say that um I really uh some outstanding Educators I wanted to just wish a a heartfelt congratulations to each of [Applause] you and now we're gonna put you over there for a picture time [Music] go ahead I love Miranda thank you [Applause] board Communications Mr Willard would you like to speak yes thank you Miss micronus I had an amazing day um with the MD's partnership with the mirand Chamber of Commerce I got to participate in Impact Morana where we take about 20 to 25 Community leaders Business Leaders and we do it on the second Thursday for the next eight months and we get to tour Morana facilities what makes our town tick the nuts and bolts of why we live in such an amazing town uh it was a great start we started today with education so we started at Coyote Trails then Morana high school with lunch by the Morana culinary group at Morana high school and then to gladen Farms just had an outstanding day meeting all of our community leaders and their commitment to our town and our school district and uh it was just great and then I just want to give a shout out to Morana High School number one in the State football team number one in the State girls flag football and I'm sure there are other amazing sports teams that I probably can't listen to all but I'm just really proud of our schools thank you Mr Hol would you like to speak yes thank you I just want to give a shout out to Butterfield for opening up their doors for us um and having a wonderful day planned sorry it was late I had a thing I could not get out of in the morning um it was fantastic we got to see Kids In Action we got to see teachers in actions we got to see new facilities it was a great visit uh board Summit was fantastic thank you Dr sh planning that and setting that up as well as all of our town members for doing that as well um that was great we got to see leaders from different high schools different student events and we got to hear a lot of students talk about their vision from Marena as well so it was great thank you then um as a proud member of the school board I am deeply honored to share highlights from several significant events that demonstrate our District's commitment to Unity community and inclusion recently I had the pleasure of attending the Torita versus Mirana Middle School uh football game the energy and enthusiasm and sportsmanship exhibited by our students reminded me of the powerful sense of community we have built within our schools events like this not only showcase talent but also bring us together in celebration of our students achievements during my visit to Field Elementary with Mr Holt and Dr streer I saw firsthand the incredible work being done to foster a nurturing and inclusive environment our educators are dedicated to every child's success ensuring that all students feel valued and supported which is at the heart of our District's Mission I also have the privilege of participating in the governing board Summit which where nearly 150 stakeholders came together to begin to develop a strong strategic plan for our District's future this collaborative effort reflects our District's dedication to listening to diverse voices to create a plan that reflects the needs and aspirations of our entire Community our district is moving forward with prop 411 and I want to extend my gratitude to the Mirana Education Association the Arizona education Arizona Education Association and the political action committee for their sponsorship of all canvasing efforts this initi itive reflects our Collective responsibility to ensure our schools have the resources they need to thrive finally I have the honor to attend the school board candidate Forum sponsored by our parent partnership it was an inspiring display of our community's commitment to shaping the future of our schools where candidates came together to share their perspectives these events exemplify the strength of our district Unity community and inclusion together we will continue to work toward ensuring that every student has the opportunity to succeed in a supportive and welcoming environment thank you for being a part of this journey and as we strive to build a brighter future for all thank you um we're going to have remarks from the public um know that you're limited to three minutes Mr Willard will be timing you he will give you a one minute warning and at the end of your three minutes I will thank thank you for your um comments uh first up is roxan zegler hi councilwoman how are you good thank you good evening school board members Dr streer and audience thank you for allowing to speak tonight on this very important subject not as a Mirana council member but as a private citizen of Morana for 35 years both roles are mutually exclusive of each other and I'll say that again both roles are mutually exclusive of each other I'm also a grandmother whose grandson attended kindergarten through 12th grade at musd and had a great experience I've known Mr Carlson since 2010 when he was first elected to the Morana School Board his performance as a school board member has been exemplary for many of us he has been our guy goto guy with the questions or concerns regarding musd the time I've known Tom I have gained immeasurable respect for how much he cares about Morana school district and the community his passion over the years about ensuring Morana is moving forward to become the premier School District in the community is a statistic people look for when buying a home in Morana Tom deliberations are thoughtful fair and comprehensive his institutional knowledge and vision have contributed to MD's many successes over the years is of grave concern I have learned that Mr Carlson was served with a restraining order of current Morana School Board member campaign it seems they are using a campaign strategy that is unappealing distasteful and offensive to most VI voters it's called intimidation the board members campaign is using the legal system to censor any opposition they feel interferes with their message major board members uh mure board members understand that votes mean something and that board members should stand by their votes when opposing information is presented to the voters that speech shouldn't be silenced as been as has been happening in this Schoolboard election for example of silencing speech is the cease and desist order that I received last week as a private Mor citizen from this same board member it is very unfortunate and unprecedented to see this kind of a deliberate behavior in Morana School race and frankly as a private citizen is an embarrassment to the town of Morana should Mr Carlson be removed from his seat as Morana School Board member for baseless charges as set forth in the restraining order you will not only disenfranchise thousands of votes but also remove one of the most exceptional thoughtful prepared and deliberate School member along with his invaluable institutional knowledge over the last 14 years thank you for your time this evening thank you for allowing me to go over a few minutes thank you Miss Walker good good evening thank you for letting me be here I am a new member of the uh membership of the community I've been here a year and a half I do not have any children having come through this system but I am familiar with school systems and that I work in California for a number of years and retired through uh through the school district I was at um I learned the importance of everybody having a voice to be able to speak and to uh give their opinion whether it was agreed with or not and I do have to say that I am really Disturbed that uh allegations have been brought against uh Tom Carlson who is an exemplary member of our community it bothers me greatly that uh unsubstantiated allegations have been brought against him which have made it impossible for him to attend these meetings and to do the job that he was called and elected to do uh it we talk a lot about inclusion but it seems that there is a great bit of exclusion in this matter and it seems extremely unfair and I personally am very against what's gone on and I just wanted to express my feelings that if we're going to be inclusive then everybody's voice matters and everybody should be able to express their opinion whether we agree with it or not I we need to have the respect to allow somebody to State their feelings and their position without having the the concern that somebody is going to go after them for stating an opposite up an opposing opinion so I am in in favor of this board please helping to bring this matter to a close if you are able to help in any regards and I stand as a proponent of free speech and the right for anybody and everybody to express their opinion without being brought in front of a legal matter a legal Court one minute thank you okay thank you mrar Mr Spears excuse me Mrs Spears I didn't have my glasses on I didn't I thought it said Mark I didn't have my glasses on sorry about that Mrs Spears thank you very much good evening president and respectable members of the board I appreciate your time time I am Marta Spears I'm a resident of Morana and I have come before you to bring a concern to some of your constituents I thank you for your time and your service to this community my concern is coming and seeing the empt SE that is supposed to be held by a school board member mainly Tom Carlson it concerns me because he represents my thoughts my opinions and my votes for the business conducted here now my question is is anything going to be done to include Mr Carlson in the discussions business and votes taken by this board um if not then those who feel he represents us have been gagged and no longer have a voice as to how our educational tax dollars are being spent and in the education of our children and the progress of our growing community now could a zoom conference call or similar mode of communication be set up to include Mr Carlson and that was my only concern is inclusion thank you very much for your time Mrs Carlson good evening Madame vice president and members of the board my name is Brenda Carlson and Tom Carlson is my husband he would have been here tonight and I would have been at home except for the unlawful actions of a childish young adult my husband was elected to this board in 2010 and has served for more than 13 years in the last few years he's often been alone as he tirelessly advocated for the best interest of students and parents doesn't take much searching to see that the positions he's held have been validated and proven to be true tens of thousands of parents have voted for him over the years and I'm amazed at how much he has loved and respected in this community I can't tell you how many times people has come up to me and said oh you're Tom Carlson's wife we love Tom he has helped so many people in this community including one of you sitting right in front of me however due to one person using law for his personal gain my husband is prevented from serving the people who have elected him to this office he can't even visit his grandsons at school one of you should have been using your life experience and wisdom to Mentor others we have one person who's sitting on the board board who's throwing a temper tantrum because his mother was caught and admitted to stealing a political sign his desire for Retribution and go to illegally silent speech has created this mess tonight this is called laware I'm very disappointed that the administration just threw up their hands and did nothing to reconstitute the board and to do everything possible to get your most experienced and loyal board member here tonight with prop 411 you are asking me to voluntarily raise my own property taxes and you want me to give more money to an organization that functions like this I am seriously reconsidering voted for this and don't be surprised if many others don't feel the same way I'm almost finished okay it doesn't matter how many a schools you have when people sitting up here tonight are such an embarrassment my question to you is where's the adult in the room oh he's not here thank you so much Mrs Fritz good evening good evening I am Gail Fritz I've been a resident of Morana for over 20 years I am a retiree of the University of Arizona recently I have learned that one of the Morana school board members currently sitting behind the podium has put a restraining order on Mr Tom Carlson this school board member has used bogus and unproven allegations to place this restraining order bogus and unproven allegations as a result Mr Tom Carlson has been forbidden to attend the school board meetings as you can see he's not on the school board tonight this is very disturbing to me as a Morana resident is this a game I thought the school board had a very important job I know our schools are very important I know our students are very important doesn't this mean the school board has a very important job does the member of the school board who placed this restraining order on Mr Tom Carlson with bogus and unproven allegations not see the importance of the school board my request is that this Administration would do would do all they can to have this restraining order on Mr Tom Carlson a retired Colonel resented the straining restraining order resented Mr Tom Carlson has been elected to do this job and currently he can't the hope is that the board can move forward in Pro problem solving I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time you have already invested in serving on this board knowing fully well that it probably requires many volunteer hours thank you thank you Jennifer Garcia hello hello good evening my name is Jennifer Garcia I live at 7400 North Blanco wash Trail Morana Arizona I've lived in the Mirana school district for 22 years I have two adult children that graduated from Morana High School I currently have a child that attends at Morano high school as a senior this year I have two of my grandchildren at Dove Mountain cem K through so as you can see I have invested a lot of time and energy in the mirand schools and I plan to continue to do so my concern and reason for asking to address the board here tonight is that an important member of this board is not here tonight not able to do the job that he was elected to do not able to be the voice for the people that elected him Mr Tom Carlson has been a voice for our children for 13 years and I appreciate all his time and effort serving our children so why is he not here tonight not because he doesn't want to be but because of unsubstantiated accusations brought against him by a member of this board resulting in a restraining order that prevents Mr Carlson from being here tonight I am asking the members of this board to please consider the implications of not having the voice of the Mirana people heard through the man that they have elected to be their voice please put petty disagreements aside stop reasoning like a child work together to get this restraining order terminated we have we the people of Morana Unified School District want our voices heard through our electorate representative Tom Carlson thank you for your time and attention to this matter thank you to the rest of the board here that lovingly serve our children next up is Miss Bravo and Miss Bravo has laryngitis so she's written a statement that another teacher will re read in her uh stad good evening Dr streer board memb senior staff and members of the audience my name is Corey Bravo and I am a special education teacher at Morana Unified School District serving students with low incident disabilities I've worked in the district for 15 years I have uh student taught here and graduated from Mountain View High School and I attended musd schools for all 13 of my pre college education I hold a master's degree in teaching and teaching education and I've lived in the Miranda district for the past 40 years I would like to get my point out that I have attended the majority of board meetings over the past six years while I normally don't speak I am someone who pays attention and is actively involved unlike some people here tonight who have never attended before or only here to stir the pot on the behest of a board member I am here because I deeply care about our district and its future I stand here today disappointed and utterly disgusted by the actions of current board members who have chosen to place political signs that attempt to debase another board member running to be reelected for a second term on this board this type of behavior has no place in our school board which should be focused on the welfare of students teachers and families not political gamesmanship it is childish unnecessary and frankly embarrassing I'm equally appalled at the same board member that saw fit to send out an email rallying people to attend this meeting tonight to publicly disparage the candidate even going so far as to provide them with this uh preferred talking points and tell them that and I quote you are outraged at this this is the board member uh does this board member not trust their supporters to think for themselves this kind of manipulation and orchestrated attack is beneath the Dignity of our board and is that is supposed to be nonpartisan and committed to serving our community I do have copies of this email to provide any members who would like a copy board members should be working together for the benefit of all rather than allow allowing some political ideology to create division as civilized results we are able to disagree respectfully and allow different perspectives to be voiced without resorting to tactics that undermine the Democratic processes a well-rounded School Board is essential to ensure that all diverse ideologies and perspectives of all parents students and Educators were represented what is particularly underhanded at the work effort to attack the candidate for their voting record during the pandemic a time when they represented views of over 50% of the families in our district and followed the guidelines of the Puma County Health Department these actions aimed at stacking the board with only conservative members are inappropriate and not in the best interest of our students I urge this board the board this board to put a stop to this embarrassing nonsense and to allow voters for think for themselves candidates should be allowed to stand by their own Merit voting record and qualifications and we must stop trying to sway votes with scare tactics it's time to or a return to working for the betterment of our schools not for ptical political gain thank you [Applause] Lily Tate I'm short all right good evening MSD board members senior staff members Educators families and community members I'm Lily Tate I teach ceramics at Toral middle school and I am a special education parent in the district I am a tvt teacher Advisory Board member a former Ron leader and education finalist uh TMS teacher leadership team dep Department lead and an musd resident let me start by saying that musd is home and family to me I've consistently felt a sense of collaboration and Community as part of musd for seven years I am deep ly concerned about the intentional attacks and attempts at sewing division in our community a board member has created signs attacking Mr Hulk for advocating for our families and students who are at the highest risk during covid claiming that our students are still suffering due to school closures and masks my colleague Miss Hawks will share how students have excelled at TMs in the time since Co I would like to share how my kindergartner with special needs has been impacted the negative impact for him was not from school closures but rather a postco delay and diagnosis because service providers like these signs blamed his delay on masks rather than on his very real disability however there are two board members who have consistently shown up for me as a teacher and personally as a parent in the district miss m cronis and Mr halt I am deeply grateful to you both the attacks against Mr Holt are divisive based on false claims and detrimental to our community the board member is sewing this division in our district is violating not only the law but board code of conduct he has lost my remaining respect for him and faith in him as an elected official he does not represent me my students or my family thank thank [Applause] you Megan this Megan sorry too many megans um thank you so much for allowing me to speak um those of you who don't know me I'm a parent of five two of whom are still currently enrolled in mus right now um and I'd like to address actually two topics that were brought up at the summit the other night the candidate Summit um you talked about school safety and about student retention after eth grade going into the high schools um and I wanted to tell you from my perspective here the schools aren't losing students because of academics or sports like some of the candidates suggested but it's because parents like myself Spar fear for their children's well-being in an environment where bullying and aggression go unchecked I know this firsthand over the past 5 years we removed our three older children at three separate occasions from Morana high due to three VAR three different safety concerns and last year I stood before this board after my fourth child was assaulted in their classroom at Mountain View High while other students watched and a teacher was present this isn't just bullying it's systemic failure to create a safe and inclusive space for all students that is resulting in serious emotional and physical harm and this needs to change each candidate and I'm sure those of you who also aren't running and who are on the board agree that we want this to be a destination district and right now parents are actually choosing to send their children to safer and more supportive environments elsewhere and if we want to reverse this trend we must Implement programs to better educate students on tolerating and accepting diversity establishing stronger support systems for students vulnerable to bullying and enforce stricter more consistent consequences for violence that said as I stand here tonight it's almost ironic how the divisive and AG aggressive campaigning in this election is such a clear reflection of the toxic culture in our schools a sitting board member along with a town council member who claims she's not heared on her behalf has resorted to such bullying hatred and even rallied random people here to start trouble with one-sided allegations let's be very clear Tom started this I'll say it again Tom started this with his signs and now he's mad that Mr Mr Hol Rose above if Tom were a student in our district I'd report him to the speakup hotline and he'd be expelled what kind of example does this set for our children when they see an adult in a leadership role engaging in this type of behavior Tom Carlson I'm sure you're watching you should be embarrassed and ashamed of yourself we need to fix our schools from within by fostering unity and safety through better policies and by electing leaders who embody those values I appreciate the candidates and board members who have risen Above This Behavior we know who you are and we as voters will do the right thing on Election Day thank [Applause] you Chelsea a good evening governing board members senior staff and mirand community members my name is Chelsea AE I am the vice president of the Mirana Education Association as well as a proud music educator at Miranda middle school with the election so close I am here tonight to speak in support of prop 411 the musd budget override public schools in Arizona are some of the worst funded in the country for decades our state legislators have prioritized budget cuts and tax credits over increasing funding for public education or even restoring cuts that had to be made during the 2008 recession because our legislators will not do it the burden of K12 funding has been placed on local taxpayers via Bond and override elections some districts are now ex school districts are now extremely reliant on bonds and overrides the Mirana Community has a strong history of supporting bonds and overrides for our schools in fact prop 411 will renew an existing override that has been in place since 2007 and Mirana voters have renewed it mult mle times with the extra funding musd has been able to offer full-time kindergarten counselors thriving Fine Arts programs smaller class sizes and increased salaries for our Educators and support staff in addition to renewing the 10% override prop 411 would increase the override to 15% this will bring much needed funds in and keep musd competitive since every other District in the Tucson area is operating at 13 to 15% overrides amazingly due to the rapid growth in Miranda in Mirana future tax rates are actually expected to decrease slightly even with the increase 15% this is the perfect time to take advantage of our booming growth and renew funding for the school programs we love and the Educators and support staff that are leading our students in their educational Journeys every single day if we fail to pass this override MD would great be greatly impacted and the district would ultimately have to cut programs and or positions this would be heartbreaking Mirana schools are in my opinion the heart of our community in these schools we educate our children and prepare them to become responsible citizens in these schools families come together for concerts dances stem nights and open house nights strong schools also attract businesses and new residents and they increase property values for everyone mea would like to say a huge thank you to all the administrators teachers parents senior staff and board members who came out last Saturday to canvas for prop 411 this is truly a community effort we need all hands on deck to tell people what prop 411 is and why our community needs it please remember to vote on November 5th and to vote Yes on Prop 411 thank you Megan haw good evening governing board members superintendent trador senior staff Educators family and community members thank you for giving me this time to speak tonight I want to start off by thanking everyone who helped last week into canvas for prop 411 it was a great turnout with a lot of good conversations with our voters and I hope that all of our future campuses for this prop go dressed as well I'd like to address messages and signs that have been seeing that I've been seeing around the area that don't seem to truly repres represent our district and how well we and our students are doing many of them mentioned how one member voted on the issue of masks and school shutdowns from several years ago and say that our students are still suffering struggling because of that this doesn't track with the achievements of our students in their schools or in competitions that they've won for example just this year several gem students from across the district placed in the yearly kidstruction competition uh with the this year's them being let's get social last year I spoke to you guys about it as well with other winners uh this year we had a team from Torita get first place and a team from qu run get third place in the category places to think a team from ironwood got second place in places to help a Dove Mountain team got second and degia team got third in places to move and finally two teams from Twin Peaks got first and second place in the category places to entertain this shows how much our students are continuing to grow and Achieve and challenge themselves in various aspects of engineering and design in addition to this if we look at the state test scores and state letter grades we see these stride the strides that our students have been making in the last several years in 2018 2019 we had three a schools 7 B schools four C schools 2 D schools and one F school and though we don't have the 2023 2024 data yet as we're still waiting for the State uh we do know that based on the 2022 2023 data that our students are not still suffering they are thriving we went up to 5 a schools 10 B's and only one C and the school that was F is now one of the B rated schools and that's my school torly to middle school this shows that our kids are thriving growing succeeding despite what some may say we need to remember that this election is not a partisan issue it's not liberals not conservative not Republican not Democrat and that we need to focus on the who is the best people who are the best people for our entire district and all of our students not those just not just those who fit into specific molds because of our own individual beliefs this board is to serve all and we need to remember that as November the November's election comes up thank you for your time and have a great night [Applause] good evening governing board members Dr streer senior leadership and of course community members thank you for having us all here tonight U my name is BR stum and I am a parent of two kind of great kids in M USD I'm also a kind of there I think my daughter's listening so I didn't you know um I'm also a former teacher in the district and the current president of the pack for morand schools I wanted to personally thank our governing board for unanimously voting to support prop 411 we all know how critical these funs are to our schools it was exciting to see so many people putting the words into action last Saturday during our canvasing kickoff so many of our school administrators leadership team were present as well as Mr Holt and candidate Roy Alexander I also wanted to thank the board tonight for remembering that you are representatives of the people in this community and just like I don't agree with everyone in the room I'm sure not everybody on our board agrees either thank you for focusing on the matter at hand which is supporting our students our teachers in the very best way possible and pushing past the noise as leaders in our community you are your civil discourse is very much appreciated and needed thank [Applause] you Sunny hearnen hello uh I am Sunny heren thank you for your time Dr streer Vice President mcris board senior staff and guests um those of you who come to Schoolboard meetings know that every couple months I get up and I talk about something going on in the district that you guys might not know about um sometimes it's stuff you do know about like music and sometimes it's just not so that's what I chose to do today and I picked quite the day to do it um I normally have a speech written out and I don't today because I have been canvasing in my neighborhood for 411 picture Ox is not a neighborhood that gets a lot of canvas canvases uh going and not the big ones but I do want to thank Mr Holt for doing the big one on Saturday and Mr Willard I did notice that you were the first one at the board candidate meeting or the board Forum to bring it up so I wanted to appreciate that both of you for speaking up for proposition 411 going door Todo um in picture Ox has been made a little bit more difficult by a email voting guide that was sent out by a different board member that did not include it I find that very unfortunate however I have got to spend a lot of time with different people um in the school district lately uh particularly parent partnership meetings and I wanted to thank the parent partnership for what they're doing I wanted to thank Dr streer for being available to us on that personal basis where parents could just come and talk to him that's not a thing that's in every District um and the parent partnership also through the wonderful board member Forum we also got to do a community Cafe which you guys don't know about because you weren't here weren't there um but Dr streer was and we got to meet as community members and I represented my school picture Ox as a parent and talk about um we we we worked oh I'll talk fast with Faith leaders and other folks um to about um making our schools better and then we got to have the board retreat which you guys were there for where I got to learn um that my daughter is not afraid of public speaking like I am because she got picked for to be to represent picture ox and she stood up in front of everybody and talked about her vision for the schools so I wanted to thank you for all that you're doing bringing the communication from the board and Dr streer to to the everyone involved thank you for your time thank you I want to thank everybody for your comments okay next uh Dr streer Vice President maconis governing board members and members of the audience it has certainly been a busy uh first quarter of the school year and I think that we are all looking forward to fall break which is one half half day away three hours Cory Bravo um but certainly fall break will no doubt provide an opportunity for all of us to have some reflection some rest and some Rejuvenation and I think like many communities around the country We have dealt with some conflict we've dealt with some division uh really over these last few years and it seems that during election season we're once again navigating uh some of this but with that said I'd also be remiss if we didn't take a step back and recognize that despite some of those challenges when needed we have been successful in coming together as a community with a collective focus on the success of our children this ability to Rally around a common cause has led to some fantastic outcomes for our students you've heard that just this past Friday we welcomed over 150 I think that number might be closer to 170 170 stakeholders representing students and parents staff business Partners faith-based leaders and elected officials that came together to celebrate our successes uh or the successes of musd as well as to begin to look at and identify what our next steps should be as we look to the Future and I want to thank those of you that joined us in the engaging discussions around our future and reflecting back and again Guided by a common understanding that each of us wants what's best for our kids we have succeeded on many fronts the literacy Focus that began a couple of years ago has continued through this first quarter and continues to provide early successes and continues to be the talk of Southern Arizona our student achievement gains from prepandemic to today continue to be a model in fact we are one of the few school systems in the country that can boast that we have met or exceeded our student achievement scores in 93% of our schools our graduates from last year earned over $20 million in scholarship money and our students earned 449 industry certifications through their CTE classes and we are not too far removed from this community coming together to support the passage of proposition 491 which has allowed us to improve and update learning spaces and learning conditions for our students I am hopeful that when we all return from fall break that this community will once again be ready to Rally around our kids and focus on doing what's best for our students and this concludes my comments for tonight thank you con consent agenda can I get a motion I move that we approve the consent agenda second any discussion all those in favor I I the consent agenda is passed okay unfinished business none new business uh Mr canoro thank you um ARS 15481 um um section why requires an update of the community and board on our maintenance and operation override to include the amount expended the previous year and then also tell you what's in our budget for the current year in fiscal year TW 2024 the district did receive nine um 9 million 565 and $700 um of which we expended those dollars um for the designated uses that were detailed in the voter pamphlet which was which included items such as full day kindergarten retention and recruitment of Staff the current year budget that was adopted in July um was just over10 million was the levy for the override um ars1 15491 um section K requires that we um talk about the current Bond proceeds and the use of these dollars um the table um that is in the board packet and I'll go through it um for the for the audience was was this these numbers are reflective as of September 16th when we submitted this agenda item and they've since changed just a little bit but the voter pamphlet um authorized $90 million to the um um to the school district and we had basically four different categories with various amounts in them um campus improvements and renovations to existing um new school and facility construction um technology and security upgrades and enhancements and then also student transportation vehicles um of that we of the $90 million we currently have a balance of about 30 36 just over 36.1 million left to expend we do not have all those proceeds we will be coming in um probably February or March to issue the last 20 million do of That So currently we really only have $16 million is I guess my point Point um and we're balanced um we're staying within the line items that were designated in the voter pamphlet as I don't know if you're aware or I'll remind the board um in the community you're allowed to have a 10% over overage in any line item we're not near any of those um thresholds this is an informational item and um I can ask answer questions um but it there's no vote that needs to happen for this does any anybody have any questions um I just have one um I heard this might be Dan canno's last board meeting as he uh steps into retirement so if that's the case Dan we love you and we're going to miss you greatly I got four more items to go so oh all right so just pretend pretend I didn't say anything and I'm GNA say that because this was informational so I figured I'd say it now thank you I'll hug you later thanks my wife said Don't Cry I was like I'll be okay okay this item was an information only item so no action is needed so Mr canoro uh J2 yes um this is an agenda item and I'll go through a presentation once it comes up on the gladen farms K8 School the new school that's being um constructed as you as you can see probably through as you drive by uh oh okay um I just start with and this was this was um taken from we've presented this so if you if it looks familiar it was at the study session if it looks familiar if you were at the community center I just changed a few slides so um the mission statement is we I mean and the key is is collaboration with parents and Community um and that was very important while setting boundaries we don't try to do this in a silo oh keep um the committee that came together um and this is been months ago that really started looking at our options when setting this When developing these boundaries um is before you it was it it had um Mr Willard myself um the principles from each of the schools that probably were that most likely would be impacted Ali Mark G Mark alosi Mark G and um Kristen and Alicia Mesa who is our transportation director oh well this is not working uh oh okay so the factors that we use when we consider um making um boundaries was that we wanted to maximize the the concept of neighborhood school so that obviously that means we need to consider of the proximity to the new school and we wanted to make use of natural boundaries that and to think of that is um I think of my best example is I live in um um in Continental Ranch the big washes we don't want kids that literally you don't want to use a a road as your boundary where the a student maybe here and then across the street as you go to a different school so we want to use use of Big M natural boundaries we also consider safety of getting to school when um when um developing boundaries and we wanted to look at the impact to the existing schools um we also really consider I mean as you know we drive 12,500 miles um impact to transportation is very um in at top of our mind when we were considering cons um factors um and then we wanted to look and this one became very prevalent in this case was the planning for future housing developments um obviously the the worst thing somebody can do is draw boundaries and then come back a few years later and go we need to redraw boundaries because we didn't anticipate future house housing this is the current boundaries the I'm going to call it purple it's probably fuchsia or something um is gladin that's gladden's little island of it's really boundar by gladen Farms it was there everything surrounded it in that aqua green um was Estus and then yellow was I just put on there is Dub Mountain we were looking at that we did not have to change those boundaries these are those um the when the committee got together and we spoke um we looked at these B um all these future home growths and where they're going to go and where they're going to when they're going to come and what what school they would impact in the future oh God so this is how we developed the um this is a good map of what we would propose as the um gladen Farms one and gladen Farm K8 um schools boundaries to be used the tricky part and I wish I had a pointer but the Clark Farm Road the north the North Boundary was our most difficult part of the discussion um we were we were using roads that do not currently exist so we were worked closely with the town of Morana um to get some of their future plans and go all right we know this is just a farm right now but what's it going to be and that Clark Farms Road ended up being pretty important um um we also used as an East Bounder you can see that that's one of those natural paths it's a big walking path so that fit fit our need so this is a blow up of the current what we're suggesting as gladen Farms boundary for the one I believe oh maybe if I don't this is um gladen Farms 2 and this if you could could put your mind back to that what we really considered was that New Growth there's mandarina and I think it's called Stonegate that's going on the other side of I 10 that you see a lot of dirt being moved right now that's going to be the future of this school and this is with all of the boundaries Estus um one of the there was and I don't believe I put there was a community U meeting that um and one of the concerns was Miranda one of the questions came up was Morana Middle School um Morana Middle School we're we're treating it just like Twin Peaks um K8 where they still reside in Morana Middle School's attendance boundary so we're not changing Morana attendance they have the choice to go to either of those schools so this if this was approved by the governing board tonight this is my projection the best um educated guess of where the schools would reside and I think it fits the model we have all talked about we want to keep gladen Farms is the current existing school is is pretty much landl I mean they're developed and there's only I think there's two small communities that are going in that will that will fill um that will come after this after in the next in the near future Estus will be at 402 which will lead a lot of room for um for um for growth for the coming of the neighborhoods that are coming kind of out out to the West um random mle school will lose 51 um students because now they'll be attending most likely the K8 but gladen farms and that number is scary 285 and we we talked about it quite a bit I was when we opened Dove Mountain I predicted 450 students that would because it's all I can circle is the current students that I current that are currently attending one of these in this case three schools we actually open that scho what 835 students I put an interesting number and it and it was it's a discussion I don't know I mean you know unless we surveyed and I that'll be one of the next steps um there's 141 students that currently reside in the K8 area boundary area that attend either Twin Peaks or Dove Mountain so if they're choosing to go to Twin Peaks or Dove Mountain because of the K8 model I would think we would add the 41 to the 285 I guess that's the point of that that so if approved the next steps which I know Zach singer is very excited about would be that they would start to involve um parents and staff to make the selection of of school name colors mascot Etc are our um are um we meet weekly at the construction meetings they're waiting for the colors and the mascot and um there's things like the gym like can we order you know there's things they were they're waiting on um we also want to make sure and and we'll have well we already have a meeting scheduled to start discussing like how to ensure that all of these families in these impacted areas actually know that they're being moved to a different you know school so we're going to work with through that process that's what I see in the near future for the next steps at this point I'd be ready to ask answer questions if I can can I get a motion yeah I moved at the governing board approve the boundaries for new K8 located in gladen farms this is Elementary School in gladen farm is elementary school as presented second any questions I have just one the one the 141 are they opened en rolled into Twin Peaks yes they would have to go through the open a that was it I I have a question Dan I know that we're going to have some more Community Action and and talk with the community but can you tell us a little bit more I know there was those of us in that room but we've had some other meetings talking to stakeholders correct can you talk about that a little bit yeah I mean we we've met um multiple times on the the development of the school from years ago I mean when we went with through the architect design process there was multiple meetings there um we've met a few times um senior staff met before that to kind of eyeball it went to the study session then the the by law I'm required to have a committee uh or we're we are to notify every household in the in the um impacted area of a of a both this board meeting and of a community meeting of which part was last Thursday yeah last Thursday um was that community meeting um and then tonight still the final what was the feedback from the community meeting I would have to ask Zack or I was not there yeah I I can address that it um there there wasn't there was not a lot of feedback around the boundaries right the boundaries are fairly intuitive I think people had a pretty good grasp of the boundaries one of the benefits that community meeting was not just to share those boundaries answer a couple of questions related to that but what we were able to do is really start to collect some of the other questions that folks had looking ahead to the fall of 2025 what was Transportation going to look like what was open enrollment process is going to look like what was the timeline things like that so we were able to kind of parking lot that we weren't necessarily prepared to answer all of those questions um but as far as the boundaries go very few questions like I said pretty pretty intuitive um transportation currently how we work in open enrollment is students and families who would be respons responsible for getting their students to a bus stop in that attendance area in order to Access Transportation that would start from year one that wouldn't be a transition phase um and then again we talked about some of the opportunities that we have with regards to open enrollment because of a lot of the boundaries of this school cover future developments so we do have space to where we are not going to necessarily have to ask families to make a change if they're not wanting to make a change so it was a little bit of informative a lot of question Gathering as we continue with our community meetings thank you Dr streer thank you de all right we have a motion in a second all those in favor I I motion carries okay uh j3 Mr Cana yes thank you um each year um we're required to submit a detailed annual financial report to the Arizona Department of Education this report is obvious it's subject to annual um audit review from our in our case hfield and meech Arizona Department of Education uses this data to um in the in the document to prepare many of their own reports for comparative analysis amongst districts the annual financial report includes following submissions districtwide annual financial report which is all of our funds every um Revenue expenditure balances um Food Service they break out on their own not sure why it used to be part but they actually have their own AFR um results based funding report and classroom site fund narrative results um the report analyzes all of the district's balances budgets revenues and expenditures and I I've listed some of the highlights um out it for this year to me it's amazing from where we came to where we're at um maintenance and operations I listed out expenditures by funds we were $15.7 million was was our budget in in expenditures and maintenance and operation fund classroom site fund a million over just over a million unrestricted 4.4 million auxiliary and Student Activities just over $2.6 million those are student fees and student dollars um and then there's a large the large payment was a bond payment for that's $1 million 11.4 million if you add up all of the our expenditures and I get this question every year so I'm going to answer it before I get to it the if you add up all of our expenditures it's it's eight 1995.

wild cats we're about to embark on the best week of the school year homecoming 2024 is finally here let's talk to some of our students to find out what they're looking forward to and reminders on what our schedule looks like Wildcats I'm here with Wen Alana all right what year in school are you guys freshman freshman fresh freshman hopefully freshman year is going well this is perfect are you guys excited for your first High School homecoming week yeah but I'm not even going for sure no I'm kind of we're excited for the first homecoming week for the most part there's lots of activ going on all week we got movie Nights we got dodgeball we got the parade and Powderpuff and pep assembly the theme this year is Once Upon a Time so looking back what was your favorite Disney movie kids movie growing up Moana Tangled Tangled too as well like Tangled as well not Tangled 2 I was like I wasn't familiar with tangle 2 Tangled as well have a great homecoming week your first Homecoming in high school all right it's Tuesday to kick off the week am I seeing double here what's our theme on Tuesday You Got a Friend in Me twin day You Got a Friend in Me twin day so find a friend find two friends make triplets dress up alike with your friends and then what do we have going on on Tuesday night for our homecoming week event we have the movie movie on the football field we're showing Tangled out in the stadium 7:00 p.m.

BPA dodgeball 6 p.m. in Bishop jym grab your friends get a dodgeball team together come have some fun in Bishop gym with BPA all right wild cats I'm here with f Xavier what year in school are you guys freshman I'm a senior we got a freshman and a senior bringing people together so your first homecoming week next week your last homecoming week next week are you guys excited yeah yeah I guess what event are you most excited for for homecoming week Powderpuff Powderpuff always great time exciting seniors vers Juniors FAL what event are you most excited for I'd say Food Fest or bboys foodfest and PM booys halftime entertainment of the Potter puff game will you be a pomboy this year congratulations congratulations you on the cross country team there yes I am I'm a [Music] runner what's your favorite Disney movie I really like to watch Mulan for some reason Mulan hey nothing wrong with that fennel I don't know we'll cut that part out [Music] and then on Thursday wild cats we have class color shirt day led by what are the seniors wearing blue Juniors purple sophomores green freshman yellow and our staff pink check out those verticals out of Miss Fus and Mr Garcia Thursday class shirt color day what if they don't have their class shirt yet Valeria we have extra shirts at Commons and you could buy them for $15 at the bookstore get your class shirt any day at the bookstore $15 all right wild cats I'm here with AJ Arion Lincoln Juan Jordan Cindy what year in school are all you guys sophomore sophomore sophomore sophomore freshman senior looking ahead what event next week are you most looking forward to football game Powderpuff game the football game the football game the football game po we got a couple powder Puffs don't miss it Friday afternoon 2:00 Juniors vers seniors it's always a great time out on the football field that night Friday night we got our neon night the squad will be there packed house you may or may not have fireworks stay tuned the 50th anniversary of the 1974 state champions will be there it's going to be a fun night of Celebration so their theme this year is once upon a time when you think about Once Upon a Time what was your favorite Disney movie DreamWorks movie growing up Cinderella classic Tango newer classic probably Ratatouille Ratatouille likes rats cooking his food form ni yeah Ratatouille for sure Ratatouille Ratatouille four ratat who knew all right we got some classic Cinderella some Tangled and then a whole lot of ratou fans here let's have a great homecoming week okay guys [Music] the week concludes on Friday the best day of the school year what are we going to wear to school on Friday we go wear we go wear we go wear Club shirts team shirts West Chicago shirts show your school pride that day paint your faces dye your hair it's the best day of the school year we're going to have a shorten class periods right into a pep assembly into Food Fest into the parade wrap around the middle school see the kids in town out to the stadium for Potter puff then show up in the stadium that night in the squad rud on our wild cats against Riverside Brookfield so we don't have school on Monday of homecoming week so we're going to wrap our dress up days around to the following Monday recovery might be a little tired after a busy week after that fun dance on Saturday night what do we have for a dress up date on Monday October 21st Sleeping Beauty PJ day Sleeping Beauty PJ day roll out of bed after homecoming week recover wear your pajamas to school it's not a late start that day you guys know that okay no late starts we got to be here at 755 but you can wear your pajamas that day let's have a great week wild cats it's going to be a great week get involved dress up each day attend the soccer game Monday night movie night Tuesday night BPA dodgeball Thursday get excited for Fridays assembly Food Fest Parade powder puff and the football game and of course cap your week off going to that dance on Saturday night it's going to be a lot of fun we'll see you next week wild cats

all board members and administrators are present at this time I would invite everyone to join the Pledge of Allegiance FL flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all know literally right first item on agenda is a consent agenda to approve the previous meeting minutes and various other documents are there any additions or Corrections than second all in favor I I all right moving on to Old business we have a policy 4322 V Kart yeah so this is a second reading um on this policy on um defining habitual treny and also outlining um participation in extracurricular um for co-curricular events um if a student is defined as habitually Trent so there were no changes from the first reading um so as you see in in there that policy there defining Trent and then saying that students would be allowed to participate or continue in extracurricular activities or co-curricular per administrative approval so flexibility is there to still work with um students knowing each situation may be different so happy to take any questions otherwise I would um recommend approval of policy 4322 all right any discussion heing I would entertain a motion to approve for approval second all in favor moving on the new business first item is to consider a choir trip and we have ladies to make a request good evening my name is Zoe Abbott and I'm the president of dynamic EXP R and a junior at CHS I'm Ana Barnes the vice president of seil seniors and a sophomore at CHS we are here to request approval for our annual music in the Parks trip this is a trip that all audition choirs have the opportunity to attend the choirs participating are the CMS Golding gions the CHS seal singers and dynamic expression we will participate in a competition on sun Saturday May 10th in attend the awards ceremony at Kings Island historically our choirs have done very well at this competition this year we will stay at greatwolf lodge on Saturday evening and spend the following day in the water park at Great Wolf Lodge Miss week and Lisa Warren have provided us with some materials so you can see the breakdowns of the trip cost the trip is not required however all students will have the opportunity to fundraise for the trip and also request financial assistance our fundraiser for this trip will be the C fundraiser and many students have been able to pay off their entire trip with this fundraiser got to see while you're looking over those documents I would like to take this time to share my favorite memories and parts about this CP going on this trip as a freshman in sophomore provided me opportunity to make stronger bonds with other choir members regardless of grade or previous friendship not only does this trip help to bond the choir it also gives us a chance to run our show set again giving us more practice and experience performing in front of an audience also being able to spend a day in the Kings Island Park feels like a reward through for for our hard work throughout the year some of my strongest friendships have been made through this trip and I would love to be able to provide this experience an opportunity for younger members of our choir we are looking forward to hopefully getting another opportunity to compete with other choirs and make memories with our fellow choir members thank you for your consideration of this trip saying that's one of the best presentations we' seen all right any uh any questions from the board [Music] Saturday Sunday not missing school yeah not missing school because it's Saturday Sunday right I would make a motion to approve second all in favor I all right thank you can stay you're absolutely welcome you may leave thank you than's go thank you all right the next item is public hearing for the 2025 budget that uh yes so this this one is just to approve our two plans uh the first one is the capital projects plan um this plan lists out our Capital expenditures that we're expecting over the next threeyear period um you'll see that we have everything listed that was in our three-year plan that we presented for you um in doing the bond issuance as well as some other miscellaneous items that are normal expenditures throughout the normal course bar operations I would recommend that you approve this resolution to adopt this plan with this the final step in making that happen so are there any questions for Andrew regarding cap projects plan heing none I would entertain a motion to approve motion to approve second all in favor I all right next is the bus replacement plan uh yes so this lists the buses that are planned for replacement over the next 5 years um we are not held to this plan to do it in the order in which it states on there um we do have some other ideas with having the electric buses coming and our current Fleet that we had purchased two years ago finally arriving um that's kind of pushed us back a little bit on some Replacements um so this is just what is planned for the next 5 years it's just another requirement for us to get our budget approved by the dgs so I recommend that you approve this resolution for the bus replacement plan any extra questions here I would entertain a motion to approve the bus replacement plan so move second all in favor next item is to consider a memor memorandum of understanding Corporation doer yeah um like earlier we had approved a a different um doctor for the corporation doctor um Dr Douglas we had reached out to him um in the spring and he had worked some things out and since he was retired he had to figure out some insurance and he was able to work finally get to a point where he could come back and tell us yes and then so we did communicate with the doctor through proactive MD who was helping us out um and was willing to step aside from that role obviously having Dr was um makes him more accessible and Amber's relationship with working with him over the years also helps and when we're in immediate need of situations where we need to talk to the doctor so I would recommend that the board approve the memory understanding between profille Community Schools and Dr Scott Douglas that's a that's a big one for us yes any discussion I would make a motion to approve that's second all in favor hi hi all right next is consider a Cara mccf Grant application yeah so in your packet um you will see the the application there for the Montgomery County Community Foundation Grant there um so it is written for two pieces one um overall um just with the program having some growing needs and um which which is a good thing but um with that comes some some extra things and some some maintenance of things so technology in the classroom is one just time to replace some of those things so Smartboard um that's starting to have some issues in there so uh that is one of the items that is there in there would be to replace um the Smartboard that's in the classroom and then the other piece is um El so some growing needs in the English learner um areas so testing requirements that were held to there so um that piece is in there in terms of helping with them getting the the testing materials to to make uh those needs be met as well so we recommend approval of the Cara application for the grant you mentioned the uh Smart Boards I recall in a board meeting years ago a demonstration and uh amazing technology for the classroom and it continues to grow so yeah we were just talking with Doug the other day about some of those things and how quickly they change and come and go and but yeah it's pretty amazing what they can do all right any other discussion hearing that I would entertain a motion to approve the Grant application I motion to approve the Grant application second all in favor I next item is considered the adoption uh tax rates Andre going to walk through that uh yes so this is the last step in our budget process for you as board previous meetings consisted of public hearings for the proposal of the budget and the tax rates that we advertised uh once approved these budget forms will be sent off to the dgf we have five days to submit those after tonight um and then we just wait for them to tweak our numbers and see where they come back to us to tell us where our actual budget will fall uh so I would recommend that the board approved this resolution can you talk us through the two columns with adopted budget adopted tax Lev some some are way different yeah so the adopted budget is what we expect to spend out of those funds um just based up like The Debt Service is very clearcut that's what our debt payments are for the next year um operations and rainy day and education those are our projections with payroll raises raises in utility costs like what we expect to spend the levy is based off of the that third column the tax rate um that is per $100 of assessed valuation so the levy is just a calculation of what we've put in as $500 million for the evaluation times the tax rate um that number will drop in most cases because they will lower our tax rates um but our assessed valuation did come back from the county at 514 Mill so there is some room there to not have it drop as much tax caps you want to mention that uh so we do have tax caps with the circuit breaker um the majority of ours is residential so it's a 1% which says that the taxpayer will not be charged over 1% in total and then we get our portion but the school is the only one that has the cut for the cap so everyone else gets their tax rate first and then the school gets Li essentially yeah libraries townships County City depending on what area you live in that's interesting it's very interesting and when we have an operations budget of 7 million and we may bring in 3.6 million how do we cover that right that's the yeah the majority of it gets covered through the transfers that we do from education operations because we do receive what would be considered an excess of State funding over what is expended in education so that's where we make up for it um but then we also factor in miscellaneous revenues like our interest income that we have and rental costs things like that there's one thing here that may correction is the date of 2023 on here um it's just in your notes for your oh yeah in the action report yes all right thank you all right any additional discussion make a motion to a motion to approve so move second all in favor I next item is to considerate common School Technology fund loan yes so the fall cycle has opened I opened on October 2nd I believe and we would like to apply for this round for the fall cycle um we're still compiling all of the documentation and the numbers needed to finish the application that's due by November 8th so right now we just uh recommend that the board approves management to apply for up to 250,000 for this fall cycle um the majority of the costs are to um buy Fleet of Chrome books for the next school year as well as any cases or software that needs to go with those as well as looking to upgrading the projection um projectors in the Middle School pretty common procedure for us to do that all right any additional discussion would entertain a motion to approve so move second all in favor I moving right along with Personnel yes uh we have three resignations here um two a assistants and one teacher second grade teacher from Nicholson um all for personal reasons and I would recommend the board accept the resignation Jackie 1322 five sheti with us through the whole semester she to quit last January yeah exactly I move approving the resignations second all in favor I okay a recommendation yeah I recommend that we hire Diana Bay as a Wilson preschool Aid is there a motion I approval second all in favor all right business manager rep Andrew yeah just a couple of items um Steve Dr Dr Dr rker and I uh did meet with our Auditors for the next cycle um on Tuesday to get started with that process and to go through their expected schedule uh right now they're expecting to do field work the beginning of December so we do have some time to get some files ready they are looking to do it almost completely virtual just like we had the last time so we're used to that it's just going to take some time to get some scanning done but the business office is ready for it um I hope to be done by Christmas and then have a report uh by February so we will not discuss any of it until probably March or April after it becomes public uh front line is our system that we are using now for absence management and time in attendance uh we moved all of our employees over to it this week we went live with both systems fully operating uh still working out some tweaks but I'll give a shout out to the HR coordinator Heather Ford and Stephanie uh working through the installation of that and working this week through hiccups here and there of getting account set up and people not having the right access so we're going to keep working through that and hopefully it helps us gain some more efficiencies with our payroll process and how we track absences and then last um I did attend the boy systems our financial software vendor their annual conference and participate in their user Council to help them gain more efficiencies and understand how we use their systems and how we want their systems to run for us um we do have some great updates coming down the pipeline that they're not letting us share yet but we are very excited for them and will help make things a lot easier for us as a corporation so looking forward to that and how they can help us run our accting more efficiently nice participate those when your what you want out in front of them that is all I have all right thank you Andrew moving on to assistant superintendent Dr Bart yeah so we were talking about the admin building a little bit ago on the Limestone and brick is going up so yeah West Side there you can you can see that going the windows are all in um it look good look sharp starting to starting to look like a real building from the outside and inside it's doing the same so ceiling insulation is um is probably 99% in um except for a couple areas they're leaving open to be able to access um as they finish a couple things and uh drywall is starting to go up um and they are moving along they've been focusing this week on the uh mechanical room getting that drywall mudded um and dry as they have the the units and Equipment they on site so as soon as that is ready then they can start putting those things in so um it is um shaping up and and like like a build so good asked a lot of times and been told but what is the substantial completion and final completion dates estimated original estimated timeline was um back half of February um but we are a little bit behind um a few weeks behind but and talking with Greg and and Steve what they're able to make up we'll we'll see they believe they can make up some of that time um and yeah as you see some things move along this week I mean even yeah the brick um we'll see what what they're able to to gain but um yeah probably more looking like March or April depending on what what they're able to make up so but did have our final Furniture meeting um as well this past week so pieces are finalized that was scheduled that was kind of the last piece right and that was scheduled like the last week of February after the tenative completion uh like we around February 23rd or something like that I want to say but right around there so um school safety just a couple things there um all the buildings been run through evacuation drills lock down Intruder drills um Amber's been um adding a lot of those things up with the buildings the fire department did just go around and do their um uh checks as well with fire safety month and um Nicholson received uh the award for um uh for for their piece there and so they were presented that just the other day and so they were were excited as they should be and um lot goes into that so um the big piece is accountability um of timing of how quick we get kids out of the building and staff out of the building um so those things are always being looked at discussed um Building Safety teams have debrief discussions afterwards and talk through what um with any drill what went well and worked we continue to improve so um next on the horizon we are um scheduled to do a reunification drill November 12th and um that would be the middle school will be reunifying to the high school so we've definitely taken some things from H at the end of last year in our uh piece there and and have looked at what we can do in our our drills coming up so um so you might start to see some things there with uh with that piece the middle school on November 12th um isarn checkpoints been working through those been getting initial data back in the pilot of that this year um we'll say unfortunately data is not as deep as what we would like to have seen um just compared to maybe what we're used to seeing with ir and NWA so um it is a pilot there are more things to come out so hopefully this St will um you in these pilot groups they're also getting feedback from the schools and that's so you're able to give them that feedback yeah um and they have different areas where they'll be soliciting specific feedback too but um and that seems to be pretty common in the networks and that we've been communicating with and been hearing has been the data um they give reporting categories so like for example one reporting category would be on adding subtracting multip dividing so we know whether they're at proficiency wise there but we don't know is the struggle if they're struggling is it in adding or is it in dividing or is so it's just all in one so being able to get deep into that data um hopefully we'll see some adjustments there and they'll bolster that piece leading to next year when the checkpoints will be uh required so uh PSAT testing also going um on so High School actually was doing uh PSAT testing today and uh the Middle School um was uh doing theirs on the seventh so Middle School is new so that'll be a new one for us so we are doing that 8th grade through 10th grade um and looking at how we can use that data to for a couple couple things in terms of instruction and placement but um but also as we look at the pathways and and those pieces that that come along there um as well so we be get into that piece so you said eth grade is new how long have we been doing nth grade or is it just 8th and 10th well 8th and 9th um are actually both new it's traditionally been going on in 10th Grade because I knew it was usually 10th but I so 8th and N I yeah I should have said nth grade is also new yeah so I was thinking more from the building like sure High School is used to doing PSAT at least in 10th grade middle school is not used to doing it at all so um little leg work there so definitely some kudos to the Middle School lawn um getting set up in college board and that was a bit of a process so and is it all eth cuz it used to do it where only certain 10th graders and then we've expanded it to all 10th graders a while and now is it all e or nth all just everyone's getting exposed everyone's and hopefully we can start you know they take it again in 9th grade we can have some comparative data there too um and it all leads to you know right now all get are taking the sat right and so being able to to ourr and and work with kids through that so um IPL fall seminar uh recently Tammy um Jen and Adam uh all attended that that's the Indiana principal Leadership Institute and um Tam and Jen also have a couple of their teacher leaders that are in a year two with them so um that is a great great program and um definitely appreciate the principles um dedication to their growth and their commitment to to IPL and what that that provides so appreciate them and their growing leadership capacity so that is your assistant superintendent report thank you Dr Bart superent report Dr rer all right I'll start with what the assistant superintendent didn't report is that tomorrow's is our staff development day um and it's focused on effective instruction in every classroom and part of our high liability school system and process um this is a step towards receiving level two certification and Dr Boart is the one who's done all the work to set this up so um definitely think he's done a great job arranging this event also with this event um will be the first time ever like on a professional development day that we are providing child care for our staff um so uh it's Amber re and Stephanie and Heidi plunket worked on Staffing communication and Molly white cotton and Kelly bowling helped arrange for some High School National Honor Society students to help too so we have our infant and toddlers that rooms going that normally work and have that Staffing but then we open it up kind of for prek to grade five so um so yeah it' be a nice thing I think the child care is something caring and wonderful that we're doing but it's takes a lot of people figure out child care so um and communicate it and those type of things so that's right I think that we have the systems in place to do it but I now understand why it's very difficult for some uh institutions to run a child care our new teachers made a point to tell me what what game changer that is yeah here we go good all right uh organizational management uh we have again formal negotiations and they're very close to tenative agreement um both sides primary focus is providers greater salary increase as possible um our student numbers are strong so there is new money for us to negotiate and so we've had very good conversations we have a great relationship um in working through that so I we'll keep you updated as that progresses but we'll probably need to schedule well not we do need to schedule another board meeting we'll have to have one that's 72 hours before our November board meeting so I would ask if everybody could look at your calendars and actually I wanted to say let's look at November 88th that's a Friday I put on here the 18th but I think we we're not going to be ready by next 14th is board meeting so we want to do it sometime the week before we need 72 hours in between but and at least 72 yes or 72 business day hours or whatever gotta yeah I can I can we on and noon are you thinking yes that works for me awesome work get back awesome okay great um Community world we did get our I think last time I told you how well we had done with our United Way giving so we got our little plaque and we were the top um giving a Setter group out of the group so that was excellent just just a hair above [Music] North but but you we had gone up almost about $99,000 in our giving and our participation was up as well so um yes jeans as part of business casual was was a great motivator I guess but no very caring group and proud that we are that caring and giving um had the privilege of speaking to the W bash College Board of Trustees on Saturday spoke along with Kelly Taylor from the Community Foundation and Randy Allen from the city and discuss our positives and challenges that our organization face in our connection to W bash college so it was very nice to have a w bash and make a donation to Crawford schools after the talk so there you go so on Tuesday well thank you excellent I can talk to W folks yeah so those things are there but um it's good thank you for sharing that I'm excited to announce that Congressman Jim Barrett and representative Bo Barett are coming to hose as guest readers for our leaders as readers program last year when I introduced the leaders as readers program at our community council meeting um representative Boer expressed interest and we talked and we finally found a date that'll work and so they'll also be bringing some books um to donate so that be exciting that be next Friday at 8:45 a.m.

602m we have uh members Rich janelli Al Almeida Julie Milano and myself as well as our ex aicio member gladus Cooper um thanks everybody for getting together um relatively quickly I know that this was not an originally scheduled meeting but we wanted to build on the momentum from our uh meet the superintendent event at braie middle school so I appreciate you all being here um is there somebody who could take minutes for this meeting please okay thank you I appreciate it just give him a minute here you that was a big notebook rich I hope we're not taking that many notes tonight no I'm not thank you thank you so much I appreciate it um so I want to just um and I'm not sure Dr selig or Dr casmiro Who would like to sort of kick off the conversation about the event on the 21st yeah uh I can kind of get it going and I think most of the folks on this call were there so we could probably just kind of have a bit of an open conversation about General Impressions and whatnot so uh September 21st um we all got going at about 9:00 a.m.

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and like North Dakota or something that they you know kind of like Ro for a for a band but you know the cheesing the the MC sandwich RV there's only one in Sunny Veil so in a county of two million people there exist one uh so it's 530 I'm going to call this uh meeting to order on October 10th um 2024 this meeting is being recorded marel can you please do roll call today is a regular board meeting of October 10th 2024 at 5:30 pm members of the board and attendance president Linda Chavez present vice president Andres ginto pres bur mfam present member cinaa present member Andrea Flores Shelton She's absent today members of administration superintendent Herman Sera presid okay um can we all please stand to do uh the pledge allegiance United States of America to the stands one nation under God indivisible withy and justice for all so Mr uh Carlos can you please mam president item 101 or 102 103 102 please 102 I can also do 103 please for [Music] and also to explain to the public we have uh two Spanish interpreters present in person for any public or members of the public who wish to come and address the board but thank you thank you so much uh so is there any uh discussion or modification of the agenda um no I think I it's an action item so when I get to it to that item I can make the or make request a correction okay then um thank you um so we just did the in English right he only did it in Spanish okay okay no he just non public members correct so public members who wish to address the board on matters not on the agenda correct request to address a board provides members of the public an opportunity to speak on any matter under the jurisdiction of the district but not on this agenda this subject if the subject you wish to discuss is already on this agenda please provide your comment when that item is called during the meeting those who wish to speak on the jurisdiction of the brown act prevents the board from discussing any item not on this published agenda but the board May refer to staff for follow up in any form of requests that are brought before the board at any time he already read that so we're going to now be going at 5:34 to close session on items 301 through 310 we'll be back at about an hour and a half and uh we're not going to have a recess so let's just come back at um maybe seven or maybe before thank you e e e my C you ready to go the Contin rest this was it these books e e e what's your title now okay let me it over here she's let you want to Del I I'll do it okay back from close session um Mr uh superintendent s can you please report out uh yes in close session the um board voted for uh 3.04 conference with legal council anticipated litigation for um student number 420 0 36918 4 to Z in favor of and then also for close session item 3.10 public EMP employment Public Employee appointment I forgot how to read employment for the title Chief Bond officer that has been changed to interim for 6 months effective uh 1010 uh 24 October 10th 2024 with a vote of four to zero in favor and then for human resources risk management coordinator the uh board voted 4 to zero in favor of approval and then for director of fiscal Services Bond director the board voted four to zero in favor thank you madam president thank you um moving on to 501 the presentation the learning communities for schools success success program that's the lcsp good evening board President Chavez vice president kto Board of Trustees superintendent SDA staff students and Community my my name is Dr Ana artiguez and I have the privilege of being the director of social emotional learning uh and tonight we wanted to uh come forward and just share our annual update uh focused on specifically the lcsp but also talking a little bit about the other programming that comes out of uh the social emotional learning Department as well so again as I said we're going to start off by talking about the lcsp um and I'm going to say one of the things with the seal department is that over the next year or two you're going to hear a lot of acronyms coming from us um lcsp ccpp it's there's just going to be a lot of acronyms we'll always make sure that we really kind of spill it out for everybody um so we'll be talking about that we'll also be talking about our counselors and the work that they've been able to do in this last year the number of students they were able to support and in what ways they were supported and also talking a little bit about what data we were able to come away with in terms of what our kids are exper experiencing uh and then we will also be talking about the wellness centers and just giving you a brief update as well as the Community Schools um so without any further Ado so lcsp um so lcsp like I said it's one of our many acronyms and this is actually our second uh cohort run with lcsp so the lcsp stands for learning communities for school Success program uh the very first round that we were part of it um we were part of cohort 3 and it actually allowed us to establish this department and also establish the director position for social emotional learning uh and we are now uh been granted uh cohort 7 this was granted to us last year it's allowing us to maintain the director of social emotional learning position as well as we were able to add a child welfare and and attendance position uh this last year uh and we are working very closely with uh child with the CW a liaison as well as student services to be able to build out more tier one and tier 2 uh Services uh around chronic absenteeism um and so again just a little bit about the goals uh it's really about us working with evidence-based non-punitive programs uh and practices to keep the state's most V vulner vulnerable peoples in school um and in terms of what we ushered in with cohort 3 that was when we ushered in kimoi uh and it spread from school to school across the elementaries um we also ushered in uh more opportunities for restorative justice practices to come into the school through partnership with seeds um we also ushered in uh different types of opportunities for Community circles to be happening as well in classrooms particularly in the middle school and so again that was the first uh round of uh cohort in terms of the lcsp piece and and then for this year like I said for this next three-year cycle we are going to continue to build out uh what's in existence and so I'm going to talk a little bit about that so just kind of an annual progress report to tell you what we've been able to do with the funding uh we work very closely with Aaliyah uh Innovations and their work is specifically focused on trauma informed practice and Workforce resiliency um so they worked uh diligently and were meeting with different uh groups of staff uh to provide support and to really give them opportunities to build upon their resiliency so that they could be in the work and be well in the work uh and so as you can see uh they served our school counselors our community Liaisons uh they served different divisions and departments in the district uh they also work closely with the office assistants and the admin assistants um and one of the reasons that those four specific titles were chosen is because those tend to be the employ es that interfac with families and the communities and students a lot more and so we wanted to make sure that if they were holding space for our families that we also had the opportunity to hold space and help them continue to build upon their resiliency uh and then uh monthly school counselor PLC like I said they were uh took part in that we also make sure every year that we have a retreat and an inservice for them um also uh the other thing that it allowed us to do was to mobilize rotation of counselors to provide short-term support to students uh staff Andor families that were impacted by some sort of trauma um and so that's something that we've been able to do over the last several years is really respond and respond in an organized intentional and thoughtful manner uh and again so with kochis we've continued to really up it and we've continued to train more and more teachers we've also continued to give out more kids uh so that um kimochi Corners are being created in schools uh and there's really um more of an introduction and there's more uh supports being brought into the uh classrooms the other thing that we did uh was more division focused uh and then from the division focused work we were able to rule that out as well so one of the things that we did do was we conducted the Fidelity Integrity assessment uh some people know it as the Swift uh and when we conducted that the purpose behind conducting it was to make sure that we had a sense of where we had strengths and where some of the gaps were or opportunities for growth were right and so uh this is foundationally uh grounded in positive conditions of learning and it was focused on uh three domains uh and then from that we also began to curate resources uh of tier one level um and really trying to build out capacity so that we could further support not just our students not just our families and Community but also our staff um and then as I said earlier the child welfare and attendance liaison was hired in February February March of 2024 um so it's still a pretty new position in terms of the work that we're doing together under lcsp uh but it's given us an opportunity to partner more deeply with our supervisors Liaisons and school counselors uh and partner more deeply with student services as well uh some of the expenditures for the lcsp budget were around staff salaries as I said earlier staff salary for myself as well as for the CWA uh extended Duty for counselors teachers and other folks who have chosen to participate in professional development around kimochis son to grow uh or one of our many other programs that we're supporting uh and then also materials and supplies so materials and supplies I've never ordered so many kimoi kits in my life um but you know it I'm going to tell you that the kids really love it and they really connect with the with the kimoi so I hope that you know when you're um visiting uh schools and classrooms I'm hoping that you know maybe the kids can talk to you a little bit about what what they're seeing with the kis uh and then some contracted services so the contracted services our partners are actually uh on this slide so kimis is one sewn to grow is another one that we've been really building out across the middle schools and the TK to8 uh Sky schools is one that we've partnered with for quite a period of time uh and then also Aaliyah which I mentioned earlier and so like I said cohort 7 what we've been doing is uh we've been doing a lot of leveraging of funding so it's a lot of uh people like to use the phrase blending and braiding right so it's a lot of blending and braiding of funding uh the funding streams that we have access to so through that blending and braiding uh with cohort 7 we were able to expand son to grow son to grow is actually anal program um that does an ex anal check-in with kids every week and it's all done by computer right because kids love to be on technology and so it's all done by computer and what it does is if a child um shows that they're may be feeling some negative emotions and you're starting to see a pattern what it does is it alerts the teacher it can also alert the school counselor um and it gives uh the teacher and or other adults an opportunity to respond to the student in terms of the feedback that they type into the into the computer right um and so we were able to expand it from just uh William Shepard Middle School which was like the pilot Flagship School of it we've taken it from Will Shepard and it's now across all TK to eights as well as the middle schools uh and then again in terms of kis we've been able to expand across a larger section of classrooms particularly a lot of our elementary schools uh and been able to provide more uh materials and supplies for them in terms of being able to have access to the kids uh and then like I said the concentrated funding uh has been for the CWA as well as for the director of social emotional learning okay and I'm going to turn it over to TOA thank you good evening board President Chavez board vice president Kinto Board of Trustees and superintendent Sera our staff students and Community my name is juletta Flores and I'm the coordinator of mental wellness support services at arusd um I want to go ahead and start off by clarifying I know in your PDF file um it does say counselor data for 22 um 23 um that is a typo it is actually our counselor data from last school year from 23 24 so this is the breakdown of our counseling data so this is how many students we've had in our district um and how many of those students were serviced by our school counselors and also our school counseling interns um so the last year we were able to serve um 88% of our um student bodies and um 6,611 students um were served by either the school counselors or the school counseling interns and 6,256 of those students um are with unduplicated identifiers so that's our students who are classified as elll Foster youth mckin vento um their social economic status or if they're in special education we broke down our data even more to kind of go over what other trauma trends that we we call it in our schools um so our counselors were able to gather this data um and out of the 1,118 um students that were supported um we noticed that there was a high percentage of emotional disregulation when we talk about emotional disregulation that's anything from um emotional disab um instability any angry Outburst um anything that requires any deescalation from the school um from the school counselors um and then 600 89 of our students um reported grief and loss um situations or issues so this means any students that were um grieving death abandonment family separation divorce um incarceration deportation um or any family illnesses or hospitalization so those were our two biggest trauma Trends in our schools um followed by everything else that you see broken down um which is bullying violence abuse self harm suicide ideation any student with mental health support um that needed mental health support as well the counseling services that were rendered by both our school counselors and school counsel um counseling interns um we rendered individual counseling um so that is one-on-one support we also did small group counseling um any crisis response or interventions that was needed and also guidance lessons um when we talk about individual counseling um the three domains are personal or social emotional counseling um academic counseling as well as College and Career counseling anything that fell under small groups um was anything around conflict resolution or mediations um anything that needed communication effective communication skills social skills grief and loss groups um transitioning to middle school for our fifth graders and then transitioning to high school as well for our eighth graders um and then the guidance lessons um there's actually a variety that our counselors go ahead and um present in the classrooms they do um introduction to counseling so they introduce themselves explain what counseling means um what counselors do um they do everything around social emotional learning so that includes kis they do Kochi lessons introduce the characters they go deep into the keys of communication um and learn and be about their feelings and the social awareness um they also do everything around social skills presentations bullying prevention or anti-bullying um presentations career exploration and academic and College Planning we do have counseling interns this year as well um these are our Partnerships that we have this school year we have um uh 11 School counseling interns currently that are serving 18 of our schools we partnered up with San Jose State University University of San Francisco Alla International University St Mary's College Concordia University and California State University East Bay um and again these are our interns that are either on their first year or second year of School counseling going towards their PPS credential thank you okay and uh next we're just going to talk a little bit about our wellness centers and just kind of give you an update uh and just like there was a typo uh for a couple of pages back there was also a small shift that we had to do so I just wanted to call attention to it uh in terms of the wellness centers we're still in the midst of hiring so we were able to hire two internal client uh two internal clinicians I'm sorry uh and uh at this point we're also going through the RFP process the RFP is going to be posted to our website tomorrow uh and we also uh posted the advertisement as well so there's going to be an RFP uh for us to try to find an organization that can help us fill the six remaining clinician spots unfortunately at this point in time we haven't had a high amount of interest uh and the other issue is that the people who have shown an interest and applied for it do not meet uh the requirements in order to do this kind of work they need to have clinical background they have to have been done with graduate school and working towards or under an Associates number um and uh we have not had enough applicants and so we had to find our plan B and so this is the plan can be uh and like I said uh right now we're in the RFP process it will be posted tomorrow we are following a very very tight timeline um so that we can make sure that we move uh contractually uh hopefully uh for the November board meeting so that we can get our wellness centers up and running in terms of the logistics of it um right now like I said we've hired two they will be deploying into the schools next week we've been working diligently with them uh in terms of development and creation of infr structure as well as everything and anything that would be needed our department believes in uh not Reinventing the wheel but we also understand that when you're building something you also have to be okay with developing things from the ground up right so we're doing a little bit of both as we move forward uh and so some of the things that we're working on in terms of infrastructure has been scope and sequence for the work that's going to be taking place and how it's going to take place standard operating procedures so that there's nothing left to question in terms of how does everything work from A to Z for our wellness centers our Wellness Center clinicians and how they function in schools uh also uh working on fors documentation and billing uh because we're going in the direction of electronic uh health records uh and then also always looking for next steps in terms of sustainable funding streams uh or Pathways and so there will be a lot of conversation within this next year about Lea Bop uh as well as um the fee schedule so additional services and supports that are starting to come in with um the wellness centers at this point in time so I I'm so excited to say that last week we had our first uh fluffy visitors at our uh at our schools that are going to have Wellness Center sites so we are partnering with an organization called pause to share and what they do is they have certified uh animal the uh animal therapy dogs uh that they're bringing on to the campus and I'm going to say that um right now when they show up on campus you are pretty much seeing every single grade level come through to interact with the dogs and the type of joy and and healing that you're seeing with kids as they're interacting uh we'll share pictures with you as soon as we've collected them all um and then the other piece like I said sewn to grow that is something that we've been blending and braiding funding so we're using a combination of the wellness center Grants as well as um the lcsp grant uh and then faces right now is currently working out at aptitude they're working with students who uh have shown a risk of continued chronic absenteeism so they're starting to put together small tier 2 groups to work with them uh and work around root cause and then Sandy Hook promise was something we were going to bring in this year uh but it's actually something we're probably going to table and hold until next year um because it's a larger system that we need to put into place okay and then Community Schools so we received uh we received notification in February that we uh were chosen to have uh a total of 10 Community Schools we are still waiting for the again right and so uh when you're applying for Grants and when they're letting you know that you received it there's the inal email saying by the way you received it and then there's the formal Grant award notification uh that tells tells you this is exactly how much you're going to get for each school this is when it's going to be distributed or dispersed all of those pieces uh the last email we received from the CDE was September 11th letting us know that they were still in the process that there's a they're running behind at this point in time uh and they would update us once the letters were going to be sent out so we still have no correspondence from them at this point I know that we you know received the grant award we just haven't received the Gan and the Gan is what's needed to move Mo everything else forward so I think that that's it uh any questions that we can answer for you at this point thank you for the presentation um very thorough um would I I have a couple of questions sure so you said that we wouldn't be seeing the Sandy Hook program till next year around when next year so we actually want to get it started next year in the fall we're looking at potentially August or September uh and the thing with the Sandy Hook piece is it's it's a rather large uh roll out and we have to do it a couple of schools at a time uh and so we are going to go ahead and and roll it out in the fall uh but my hope is that in the springtime early summertime we're going to be able to sit down and really uh schedule out with site administrators what the roll out's going to look like I probably we're probably going to want to start with middle school and then TK to8 and then Elementary uh and so we're really going to do uh more intentional planning with site administrators around this piece so for the wellness centers um you said that um what my question is do you have the Personnel for the documentation and the billing or when you get the money to do that is it part of the that program or does it come out of the general education fund which fund does it come out of so in terms of so let me try let me try to explain this because I'm also learning this all myself so in terms of the EHR what we did was we worked with our current uh thirdparty vendor so the third party vendor is leader services and so we've been working with them because they're already doing some level of billing for special ed students this is going to give us the capacity to do billing for General ed students right and so the general ed students that for example uh qualify for medical we will now be able to do some level of billing through Lea Bop and that's going to bring the funding in and so the way that the pay the way that the payment works out and I might uh defer a little bit to uh assistant superintendent Del sels uh but the way that it works out is that um the pay the pay happens once the monies have been recouped there's like a percentage of it that they get uh out of the money that's that's reimbursed to us and again I'm still learning all of these different moving Parts uh but from my understanding like the things that they've done for us thus far have been free of charge because literally all they're doing is taking what they've already created for special ed and just kind of formalizing it so that it's going to have General Ed information for our kids that that's was my next question what percentage because you know how it costs so much for the to to to do all these services for for the special sure so I think the do you do you want to respond to that one I actually don't know the exact percentage um because I believe it's different for General Ed students than it is for special ed there is a complicated formula for special ed um it runs around 53% I want to say um for special ed so we'll have to look into the General Ed side okay thank you very much any pro thank you so much for your presentation and it's really exciting to to see so many of our students accessing the counseling services um so I'm really excited to see the numbers and I had a question about um how are how is counseling presented to students how do they know it's an option is it to the parents or how like do they get a presentation at the beginning of the school year how does that work so at the beginning of the school year what happens is counselors will normally go into classrooms at the beginning uh the first real exposure for our kids is through guidance lessons which is why you saw so many different uh choices in terms of guidance lessons that are being delivered and so one of the first uh guidance lessons normally is intro to counselor right the counsel is introducing themselves they're talking about the different type of work that they can do they're talking about how the kids can access them right whether it's like filling out their own self-referral and putting in a box or what have you um so again I'm just going to kind of also refer and defer to my practice when I was a school counselor because that's what I did for much of my time uh in the schools um I would go into caitos and I would do presentations the gitos for the parents um I would also make sure that uh at meetings I was continuously staying in contact with teachers and letting them know here's the referral process this is what you can send to me but also know if that there's a if there's a crisis of any type that you can actually just bring the child directly to me right uh and so students uh become aware normally through guidance lessons uh I will say also one of the other things that counselors uh do uh is also do different events and activities on campus normally like around lunchtime so for example towards the end of October we have Red Ribbon Week and a lot of counselors take that as an opportunity to be able to do a lot of anti-drug messaging through like upholding things that kids should be engaging in like positive adaptive strategies right uh and so there's also events and things that uh counselors are involved in during the lunchtime during the after school time uh at times that also gives them some level of exposure to the kids but again I'd say that most it is through the guidance lessons I think that's the first introduction and a number of our counselors continuously go in with more content um with with the guidance lessons I have a couple more questions um and I know you mentioned in regards to the um faces uh so there're not going to be doing that piece right now no so so faces is working with optitude through an enhancement Grant with the wellness centers and they're going to be doing tier 2 work only with kiddos that are struggling with chronic absente the other piece that was there uh we are actually going through an RFP process right and so it's going to be open to anyone who wants to apply and who wants to bid that is going to be posted tomorrow on our website um and we turned the RFP process around pretty quick thank you business office um yeah so we turned it around pretty quick and just last so the uh basis on aptitude is more of a life skills class just in general so it's more small group right so it's more focused on so for example if students if the root cause to Chronic absenteeism is because children are are grieving right because of a loss of a parent or a loved one then they are facilitating tier 2 groups with those kids specifically focused on you know coping with grief and loss right it's it's about us really doing that deeper work to understand what's getting in the way for kids uh and bringing opportunities for small group because one of the most powerful things for with kids in small group is that they can see that they're not alone that they're experiencing something that the person next to them is also experiencing in some way thank you yeah of course Dr I want to thank you on your team on this you know for bringing this to the board's attention you know it's great that we're serving you know kids and all the other parts of their life that that have to was it be resolved before they get into the classroom just a quick question on the community school so the implement ation Grant was turned in in February we received a notification regarding the successful application so do we there an approximate timeline uh of the notification and you know what do we have an estimate on how large the grant is so the Grant in total and I'm going to look towards uh assistant superintendent disel as well so the Grant in total for my understanding over a fiveyear span of time is going to be pretty close to $12 million right uh now in terms of the services and and the Gan itself we were supposed to receiv received the Gan in July originally when everyone applied we were told that July would be when things would be dispersed information would be shared in July we got an email saying it was going to be August in August we got an email saying it was going to be September uh we have yet to receive something after September 11th um you know and we are continuing to to ask them if they have uh any kind of updates and they're continuing to ask us to be patient and wait yeah so at this point in time the last communication officially from them was September 11th and I'm hoping I'm hoping that that again is on its way in this next week or two so I guess the second question would be do you know does board need to contact the this the State Assembly member the state senator to get this sort of cleared up or something where where are or are we in no person's land here um I'm not quite sure how to respond to the question trusty fam um I would I would say that I don't think that uh it would hurt for us to reach out maybe outside of myself yeah I don't I don't know I'm not sure how to respond thank you of course so seeing no more questions thank you very much thank you so much for your time tonight pardon take public comment no I'm gonna take it right now I was asking Mar B who's on the clock um do we have any public comment on this item seeing none uh we're going to move on to 502 presentation the East Side Education Foundation San Jose University gear up Grant thank you Mr Manny good evening nice to see you again under different circumstances um want to present some information this evening regarding a partnership that we have with Alam rock that involves Eide Education Foundation and Europe um which uh we titled College in your future it's a terrific opportunity um for alamro a grade students and I just want to share some information kind of giv you on that thank you Daniel so a little bit about the um the foundation um we started the Spartan East Side promise about seven years ago and it is uh we approached San state it is a partnership where the university agreed to um automatically accept into San State any graduate from the East side Union High School District if they meet the minimum adg requirements it's a tremendous opportunity I would argue it's one of the the most systemic um uh initiatives because it dramatically has increased the number of students who've been entering San State um over the past several years it's almost tripled the number of students who are gradu we're about close to 800 students now uh from the original uh about 250 that we're attending Santa State the um didn't me it's not a free ride you still have to meet the adg requirements in case you're not familiar with those those are 15 required courses that you have to take in high school and um so the students do need to meet those a little bit more about that um in just a little bit um we also have been involved with um implementing the I'm trying to read this from a distance here Daniel look it down there calling savings account very much I'm old there we go thank you and uh the college savings uh calc kids which we just started here recently in Alam Rock and the reason cow kids is important we actually got it started before the state took it on we had a partnership with aite credit union um and the reasoning behind is the research has shown that if a student saves as little as $500 in a college savings account it um increased the chances of not just enrolling but graduating from college four times four to one ratio so cow kids estate is taking that on and they are opening College savings accounts um for uh for the students we also raise scholarship funds for the students graduating from Eastside we've given out about now close to $130,000 we'll be giving out another $50,000 this year and then um we also fund the Spartan summer program so that the students graduating have a two-e orientation at San J State and it's a terrific uh partnership the University it we pay for it the counselors from east side are there as well and it gives the students a hit start they enroll their classes they get head started enrolling and we already know that the students who go through that program uh are more likely to still remain in school after the first year than if students who do not we also started um this past year the Spartan ambassadors right now we have 10 uh graduates from the East side who are in various Majors uh we have them for mechanical engineering accounting um speech therapy psychology and they are ambassadors that we kind of take out to the students because they're listen more to them they're closer to their age and they're going to listen to adults talking about the Spartan isai promise and the adg requirements and of course our signature uh major fundraising event is the Hall of Fame dinner which we will have on November 2nd and um please to say that Andre will be inducted into the East Side Hall of Fame on that evening so a little bit about Gear Up um that's what it stands for gaining early awareness and Readiness for undergraduate programs bottom line what that means is we want to get students to be College and Career ready by the time they graduate from high school uh it involves Alam Rock and Franklin McKinley it involves only eighth grade students so these kids are very lucky um it will the grant will follow them all through High School so we're already beginning to have conversations with the high school in terms of the best way to be able to support these students the long-term goals is we want them to graduate um ready for college and career and what that means is they're going to would have completed the adg requirements that cours workk so they at least have options it doesn't mean they have to go to college it just means that if they want to they've met the minimum requirements so that they can the short-term goals we want every eighth grader by the end of this year to learn about college and to know about the spanesi promise 100% all of them will know about it we want them to learn about different careers interests and options so that um they're going to be aware of different opportunities for them I remember my own upbringing and I grew up in San Francisco B hun Sports similar to East Side I don't know anything about any kind of career options other than working in the shipyards you know what what was available then so we want to expand their Horizons so that they're aware of um different careers that are there and this one is very important we want them to complete algebra excuse me we wanted to complete grade8 ready to take algebra you may know that Eide is switched from math one back to algebra so next year they will need to pass ninth grade algebra it is the critical Gateway course and um we can talk to what blue in her face about college opportunities that course is critical they're going to have to meet the adg requirements of three years of math hopefully four and it starts with completing ninth grade algebra how are we going to do this well first comes inspiration so we already are planning events we just held our first event at the tech for Franklin McKinley and we have Alam Rock planned for October 17th you're invited I hope to see you there it is a terrific opportunity um we already have by the way more students in roll and Lam rock that we did from Franklin McKinley so I'm pleased about that um we have six buses and I want to thank by the way uh Ana where's Anya who's uh been very helpful to us I'll talk a little bit more about our our site um coordinators who's been our contact person as has been Sandra um I started to meet them before I started working here with sander with Tara And with Anya and it was a pleasure to work with them um in this capacity before I even started here um the tech is enti is intended to um Inspire the students they're going to have the tech all to themselves for three hours we're going to have tabling events there where they can go to different tables learn about different careers um just to get them thinking not to have them say oh this is what I want to be but just to realize there's a lot of different occupations the high schools are there talking about high school talking about a tog our Spartan ambassadors are there talking about their experience as uh students in East Side um and what they're doing now at San State it's a terrific terrific opportunity um they're fed and um it's uh it went really well and we think alrock event is going to be even better on October 17th we also want them to be engaged in Exploration so this we're just developing a toolkit right now that we'd like to implement in class um about 20 minutes a week and hopefully in math specifically we want to inspire them um to really really take advantage of what I'm about to say next which is our uh academics but the exploration will be in class work well they'll learn about the adg requirements they'll explore their interests um just opportunities for them to just be aware of the college path um what colleges just start get them to thinking about it now this next part is really important we've contracted out with um barrier tutoring and the Silicon Val Education Foundation to provide tutoring and extended time instruction in homework and in math um we're just kicking it off right now we only had I think last count 17 students taking advantage of this um I talked to Sandra about getting to the principls and K I like to go out talk to the classes let them know the tutoring and act an extended time it's not punishment it's to get them ready for next year they've got to be ready to take that course on next year and um it's so it's the biggest chall so everything we're doing Center centers around them getting ready for this academics and this help is there for them the the tutoring is online it they can access it during different times in the evening and extended time is going to be after school weekends during periods to um review and um prepare them for math one of the components will be dealing with um the vocabulary math if you're familiar with Kon core very language intensive a lot of students struggle just over the language on that and then the uh last one is the site coordinators and uh we had this evening um I had Romana pause here but she had to leave she couldn't wait and she is a graduate student um from uh Sant State we have um four site coordinators who work with Sandra Sandra's kind of been there kind of overall coordinator and um we also recently hired nine additional site advisers and they're going to be going into classroom talking to students they're there are different events um we we are planning in April the um stem po at San state where we're going to take them there in partnership with synopsis um they'll go to San Jose State they'll be exposed to various stem areas this will be done uh in the spring we're also planning a field trip to um if we can get in um at the U Levi Stadium so that's another item that we're planning to try to get some kids motivated but we wanted to get motivated take advantage of those academics the site coordinators will be at the school to um interact with the students compliment what you just heard with what um ana is already already doing and we're very excited of this um with this program and happy to be part of partnership with San State and uh Alam Rock School District I want to also acknowledge Dr Dolores mana and Dr Lori cesy who who are the two professors at San State who wrote the Grant and we have been um partners with them the Eide Education Foundation to implement um the components of the Grant and I believe that's it I'll take any questions if you have any question for Mr Manny s okay I say Manny thank you so much for you know it's I this is a great resource for our kids so I'm very thrilled that you more more our kids are enrolling in it than Franklin mle now no no punish just being shown publicly but uh but uh I certainly hope that our kids have a great time at the tech on the 17th and take advantage of this great opportunity given to given to them uh you know with your uh work and the work of uh District staff and uh congratulate my colleague trusty quo on getting into the east side all yes so good thank you thank Youk you pleas thank you uh thank you Manny and um I'm really excited to hear that every eighth grader is going to have an opportunity every grade um thank you for the Partnerships the funding to get this all done um and I look forward to it growing and getting you know to the younger students where we could get to them by third grade and so we have to do less and less remedial work um but this is a great great start um for I will say this about the Sparty C prom speaking of which is um we recently met with the President of University she's um fully on board with the Spartan eai promise and actually wants to start expanding it the information get out to the Elementary grade so it starts early on to your point yeah and congratulations Andres and to all the other Hall of Famers out there um and I look forward to continuing to collaborate and partner with you uh thank you for you know continuing to stick with us definitely thank you I I'll add my thanks I think this exactly what we need to do I know that we see the achievement we're at uh and U the language arts area we obviously we need we need to do better but always math is always the the struggle and I can attest that I added to that to those figures that we get because of the struggles I always have with math um and so I'm extra appreciative of the efforts that you're undertaking to support our students here as we move along I would encourage just wishful think in the future um that uh we rope in uh Sal Evergreen to go ahead and support these efforts to prepare students uh in in terms of math I over the course of the summer I had the opportunity to work with students that were uh seventh graders going into eighth grade as part of a duel and Roman program it was it was great program was quite frightening to deal with such young students but uh it was actually very rewarding yeah and so maybe that would be an effort there to continue to bolster and support their math preparation as they go from e8th grade into into um into I know in the early days the president of Evergreen was part of the superintendent Council for the East Side Alliance too so that's definitely a possibility yeah thank you um thank you Mr Manny for all the work that you do and and all of those at the East Side Education Foundation as well I know that you guys all do this out of the bottom of your hearts and um for the students here as well as friendl McKinley and for the students you're going to be doing a little bit more spread out but thank you for all the work that you do and hopefully more of these kids take advantage of it and um we hope so yeah I think we'll we'll get that going yeah and I also want to acknowledge um danam moer is the superintendent of eign um he's the president of the board I'm the vice president and it's uh it's a labor of love for us so we're more than happy to do it yes we got to do something yeah well we're glad you're doing it here and nowcast um okay any more comments Mr no I just wanted to State for the record that we're not letting you go I'm not letting him go yet I know where he I know where he drinks his coffee the Starbucks you actually do thank thank you thank you very much thank you okay and thank you to our staff too has been who has been working very well with Mr Manny thank you very much very much so yeah thank you thank you that's U moving on to 601 Teamsters seeing the chers isn't in the room we're going to move on to 602 California school boards Association CSEA what did I say School Board yeah them too the employees sorry about that um California school board associate excuse me and here we go employee Association okay seeing that they're not here let's move on to area thank you I Educators Association py Chavez I wanted to let you know that Sharon had texted me and I um she said she's not able to make it tonight so why she thank you I hope she feels better thank you hey hello members of the board superintendent s the and Community well fall has started as Educators and schools are getting into the groove of things The Winds of Change are still lingering and have created a sense of uneasiness among us all of us are waiting to see the outcome of the school consolidation process we value the hard work long hours and dedicated individuals that have stepped up to transition US during this difficult time as November 1st approaches area is looking forward to providing input on our professional development day it is area's hope that a new partnership can be made and a spirit of collaboration will come about where Educators in the classroom's voice are listened to and respected as the professionals that we are moving forward as decisions are made area committed to working with the district to create an action plan that will support all staff families and community members thank you thank you Miss and uh and uh 604 elen Rock administrators Association I'm just checking to see if I can read this without my glasses I might be able to pull it off good evening board President Chavez members of the board superintendent Serta and arusd staff in the Alam Rock Community my name is Alicia Myers Kelly and I'm the principal of Sylvia Castell Elementary and the president of alam Rock administrators Association I am honored to address you all tonight as the president of araa it is a privilege to represent the dedicated administrators and managers of alamro Elementary School District on behalf of ARA we are thrilled to warmly welcome superintendent Sera as our new leader in Alam Rock and we are grateful for your visits to school sites and the priority you have placed on Gathering input and interest from our school site leaders as you know our administrator Association is composed of four management groups the managers and supervisors um the district office administrators the K8 to Middle School administrators and the elementary school administrators from our managers and supervisors they would like to request revisit visiting the allotted non-duty days and work days per year and from our tk8 and Middle School principal group they thank you superintendent Serta for more time on their sites and the opportunity to focus on student outcomes and from our elementary principles we would like to recognize and congratulate the board and Russo mckeny for being awarded the Golden Bell in climate change and Innovation a special thank you to member mfan who wrote the board policy that actually helped support the writing of the Golden Bell application um also uh we want to recognize and congratulate payter for the successful showing of over 100 families at last month San Jose Autumn Moon Festival at Andrew Hill High School the painter Community also recently participated in the conference uh for CDE launch of Vietnamese American experiences model curriculum at the Santa Clara County Office of Education to learn about the UC Davis house learning materials and on a more somber note as we embark on the work ahead in closing and consolidating our schools AA members want to acknowledge that we are at will employees we also want to reiterate the importance of notifying management members as early as possible our preference would be before the December break so that there is time to prepare documents for Job searches time to process with our loved ones families and significant others and time to look forward as we continue to support and guide the people that we lead and serve through the inevitable changes these closures and consolidations will bring we really do thank you all for all that you do we appreciate it thank you um 605 miss the superintendent comments Mr s superintendent sir thank you President Chavez um I I want to start off by um well one I I've been out visiting the school sites I've um it's it's been a I was trying to get to all of them by Thursday to before the board meeting didn't happen and so but uh the the principals uh the teachers office staff I mean cafeteria workers custodial staff they have been so welcoming and and it's it's been just a pleasure being out there I I'm trying to visit classes at every site and uh oftentimes just our conversation I'm I'm checking in with principles just check to see where they're at right there's there's a lot to process there's a lot going on with with the school closures and a little I'll get more into that but I do want to thank the sites the principles uh and everyone that I've uh had the opportunity to to meet and also the classes that I've visited I've uh seen some wonderful things uh checked into some you know visited some classes where some of the you know some of the actual tasks are pretty aligned to the standards I was actually checking in with uh trusty fam and I shared a couple of of um observations for some of the uh classes that I visited in uh Sixth and eighth grade grade where students were on task they were actually citing textual evidence you know over a uh book that they were reading and I was like whoa this is awesome so we go to another class wow same thing and it was just like this is awesome um and so I did tell the principal that you wow that's very impressive and so uh I do want to um highlight the the schools that I visited and the principles because they've been so wonderful adante one I went uh that was the first one uh princi Victor uh wendin um adant to principal Jose Cortez uh aptitude principal suan him menz I was at her school last week Cel uh principal Alicia I was there key I was there with you last week as well Sor Chavez learning center um and marivel is the one scheduling them so she's trying to keep them all within the area so I'm not traveling but it's it's been uh it's working out um uh Cesar Chavez uh Learning Center uh principal uh and um principal on special assignment Kristen burst uh bird I'm sorry and director Dr vietos raise your hand I see you out there thank you it was a pleasure meeting with you as well U with all of them of course and uh dorsa principal Kelsey white uh George or principal Jackie monano uh her energy wow um it's amazing uh we were I couldn't keep up with her and I walk fast have you guys right have you yeah it's not me right I was like Wow and I'm like okay let's go to this class and it was just awesome um Lindale principal uh casturi Basu actually we were there a couple of times uh for and then I'll talk a little bit more about why I was there as well uh mcllin principal Pablo Fen was at his school as well uh Okala principal Sharon Brown shepher principal Jennifer dhy uh Renaissance Academy at Fisher those were the two I was at this morning principal Doug uh Klein Heights heints I hope I'm pronouncing her correctly and then Renaissance Academy at Matson this was this was a perfect setup with with denal finnon I get there and uh they're out at uh nutrition and guess what's happening at the same moment that I arrive and I I hear there's an actual potluck I had chilakil Roos veres tinga like I I was just oh and toras um it was a sandwich Salvadoreno there was pastel Lees it was a feast and I was hungry I was thinking you know what lunch is at probably at one ah um uh trusty fam was there in the office I think it was at 4:30 or so 4:45 when marivel arrived with uh she goes hey you haven't had lunch I'm like yeah I have showed up with thearon I was like I I was it it was fun but um but no it's been a pleasure visiting the the school sites um I'm very impressed and and their attitude considering where we're at with everything very positive very just energized uh it's been a pleasure um I I also uh thank you for congratulating the the the schools the two schools that I wanted to congratulate as well um some of you trusty fam uh Travis Karen you uh Kar um Karina you were there as well TR Kina uh we were there for the opening of the Burlington um and they actually donated $55,000 uh to uh to Lindale and uh so congratulations and what was so awesome was that um they also we were there at at the presentation of of the checks uh do staff was there uh President Chavez was there and so we had the big check right wasn't it wasn't it awesome just the emotion uh and it was a perfect setup for me because I had visited the School site the the the day before and so I actually walked into like six classes and so kids were like who is this person and who is that person oh this is a superintendent and so they knew me already right so I show up the following day and we're presenting the check right and as we present the check uh President Chavez he presented the check they looked at the dollar amount the $5,000 and the the the expression on their face was like that's a million dollars and it was just awes right it was just beautiful to see just their reaction and and I I did see the video after and it was like some of them were saying $5,000 like this this is really going to take us somewhere you know and it's like we need more than that to keep our schools you know open but but just the energy they were just it's just beautiful to see our our our beautiful students um you know and and and their excitement and and and this is why we do what we do so the other one is I also wanted to to uh to thank uh R actually congratulate Russo mck's faculty staff and also principal tenu uh Ki for um of course the the environmental justice uh League protecting what we love and I didn't know you had written that board policy trusty fam uh they you know they they are 2024 Golden Bell uh winner and so there is uh going to be a actual uh celebration in Anaheim so if you're interested in attending you know in attending it's going to take place uh on Thursday December 5th uh 2024 I know uh you know you may not be able to make it but if you're interested in in going please let me know we can go ahead and and make the arrangements for you uh uh so that you can be there um so that that's very exciting uh and it'll take place in naham I did say that right yes okay thank you and just an update on the consolidation uh committee um last night was the sixth time that they've met uh I've at the beginning I was showing up only to to a couple just a few minutes just to give them their space and and um the last three I want to say the last three uh meetings that they've held have been a little bit more intense in that they they have been reviewing lots of data they're asking and they're asking for resources right Sandra Teresa they're asking for budget it's it's it's just very impressive uh uh to watch them um you know just just engage in in analizing and breaking down um you know the data and then uh ident you know thinking of what criteria they're going to uh be looking at to consider uh you know which of the schools you know it makes more sense even though it's it's it's difficult and we don't want to close schools and so but they're asking questions that I I right we we thought like wow that's a great question okay then that's something we need to you know and and and the staff I want to thank you also for for you know they're taking notes they're going back they're like okay they asked for this data let's get it ready for for the following meeting and so uh I know we're staying till what 10 but there I hope you're taking some time to take care of yourselves uh as well as a committee but uh it it's been it's been very impressive and they're asking some great questions and now they're narrowing down and and you know and and what what I'm very appreciative of and impressed with also is that they're they're being very uh unselfish in that they're not it's my school you know you can't go with this one or that one it's like no let's look at the data let's look at the criteria and it's all open and uh he left uh but Manny barbar is doing just a fantastic job in facilitating it so um it it's been very import you know very impressive um just uh uh I do want to put something out there um that we do have a and this is a reminder um that we do have a school consolidation web page so um has all the minutes has information afq and so uh we are pushing that information out to to our communities via parents Square via email uh so please if you have any questions please make sure you log on for that the the other thing I want to say uh want to share is that next week on October uh 17th I am going to hold a um uh Town Hall it's an informational consolidation it's a consolidation of school's informational town hall meeting uh it'll be in person and then the week after that and this will take place I'm sorry at Russell mckeny on the 17th from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

roll call President Melinda saski Charlene Diaz here PR rushon here B ziki here okay would you please stand and say the Pledge with me I Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation without indivisible with liy and justice for all um do we have any citizens present I don't see anybody want to skip that part oh so we do have public no we have citizens present though be sure you sign in you sure you sign in yeah I I saw them all signing except for Lance [Laughter] anyway 2.6 donations oh my gosh so what is Switzer engineering Laboratories uh Chris you'll have to help me here it's a company that one our teachers left education move to Wasington work that and every year they are allowed toate back to some plac cool wonderful wonderful donation of school supplies oh my goodness thank you Mr and Mrs Brown and Christmas presents for mckeny vento thank you John and Jenny Becker and we actually have a I think a picture oh oh ho oh good looking you're looking reindeer there yeah that's from that is really nice look at all those toys Olaf that was the guy Sven Sven and he's now sitting in the uh in Sheree's office so every time I walk in there I kind of jump because I'm think what animal is in here I wonder if is he certified um yeah I don't know if he's had all his shots or not you notice that so he doesn't lose his car it's attached to hisim um Mr Becker is the spouse of one of our employees and uh he buys uh he buys storage units uh he's a picker and um so uh apparently in one of the storage units that he bought recently there were all these toys so he donated them for um Mento isn't that nice look at that look at all those yeah all the toys well thank you very much to the both of them that was really nice and I'm sure that there are things that have been donated that really have not been listed because they're kind of we have them all the time yes and we have lots of uh we have lots of employees who have in the last two months three months um assisted uh other new employees with things that uh they have needed that is really nice people helping people yes adoption 2.7 adoption of the agenda I need a motion to adopt the agenda I'll make a motion Madam president that we adopt the agenda as presented I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I barbariki superintendent board uh governing board members well uh I would like to show uh if you would cast that second year that fiveyear account comparison so unfortunately you see that we are down I'm not quite sure why the graph shows 2000 or 2206 is slightly higher than 2216 um but you can uh see that we uh in fact have dropped uh almost 60 uh almost 70 students from uh from a ago and uh that will affect our budget so at some point I will have a budget uh revised budget to share with you um so I did want to point that out didn't want to have any surprises um and then I would like to point out in um uh the cumulative discipline report um yeah that one um you notice that I put a note at the bottom uh we had we had not uh consistently included uh bus discipline items in this report in the past some sites did and some sites didn't and so when I excuse me when I was looking at the numbers to put into this chart uh this time I recognized that actually four of our five schools do and I will ask the fifth school to do that but the other thing is because of the list of things that get reported to the state um and in many cases the the bus referrals are the are a large part of these numbers that you see um so it so it behooves you then to look at the individual site reports as well to see how many of the disciplinary actions really were bus incidents as opposed to um misbehavior during the school day okay of course the fact that their bus or in the classroom it's still not good that you know they're acting up on the bus because there's a dangerous situ when driving and these kids absolutely and I'm not trying to I'm not trying to minimize that at all um um U but for the most part you know we we do we do we have a set of disciplinary actions for bus behaviors misbehaviors and then we have the set of disciplinary actions for everything else um but you can see how it can skew these numbers too yeah you know and um and so fairness and and honesty transparency says that we need we need to be consistent and we report this so so tell me it diamond is it DB Diamond Back yes Diamond Back is third grade overloaded no is that a great it's okay Stephanie is that isn't that a grade where we have all new teachers all brand all brand new teachers the entire grade level so they're finding their way as new teachers they're finding their way okay I will tell you that all of our sites have worked really hard uh to you uh work with teachers to say you know just because there's a misbehavior that doesn't mean you're going to send the kid to the office you you need to have in place a you know a series of steps of of U ways that you manage those behaviors in the classroom before you ever send them out and um and that's a work in progress especially with new teachers yeah you know I was just curious whether the class was too big and that's why we had so much action but that explains if the brand new teachers they probably just feeling their way Yep they're learning okay any questions on this report okay um then uh you've seen our work tickets I I don't usually highlight this one but if you'd put up the work ticket one um uh I want to highlight that we have finally after two years cleared all of abm's uh work tickets yay um and uh uh it's unfortunate that it took two full years to do it um but the other side of that is how many hours of work our facilities people have had to put in in these two years uh to fix things that for which there were no work tickets and uh and they've done that and then the chart that I have for you every month at the bottom um you can see the number of Clos uh you know on any given day on most days is higher than the number of new new tickets that come in but um uh you know there are days when we get lots of tickets and uh don't get them cleared out for a few days so um anyway I kind of wanted to highlight that thank you and then uh I have a number of things for uh my miscellaneous updates so the first thing I'd like to talk about is uh that oh gosh has it been three weeks I think it's been three weeks uh we had U our regular quarterly meeting of the administrators and our coaches from IE and one of the things that we did in this uh in this uh meeting uh was to uh do the kind of chart that the sites do for their progress on uh on the key points for uh changing our model of instruction we had not done this this way in the past and uh and so I had to go back uh they all wanted to see the difference between last year at this time in September and this year in September so I went back to the data uh they all trusted me to go back and do it so I'm going to go over to the chart and kind of uh show you a little bit uh about where we are on these so this is called the school instructional maturity model and obviously we eventually over here right so um I have a rectangle pink pink rectang pink rectangle stickers for how we would have rated ourselves a year ago and um they're on this left side and then pink C circular stickers for how the team uh ranked ourselves for this year um uh because everyone is was very self when we had that meeting of where we are and where we are not in year two the beginning of a year two U but when you look at where we were a year ago it's very nice to see that we demonstrate growth in all of these areas so this one is um this one is conditions for self-regulation and agency okay so what are the conditions in the classroom that helps students um regulate their own behaviors okay so students come with whatever behaviors and whatever experiences they have what are we doing to establish a culture and an environment in the classroom that helps them increase their ability to deal with their own emotions and their own behaviors and so we have movement this one this one is systems of control which means essentially teachers are controlling students are behaving because teachers are bosses um this one for this year is self-regulation uh is moving towards intrinsic so uh we're seeing students begin to own their own control of their behavior um and each other as opposed to the teacher having the rules and regulations that they have to follow eventually we want students to be self-actualized where they take complete ownership of their their emotions and their behaviors this one is tier one core instruction so how is whole class instruction going on on this side it's um it's absent in other words meaning we don't have a good system of core instruction I'm very happy to say that even a year ago we were not there um but very much teacher directed and even with uh even with 28 know 30 35 new teachers this year and uh um and last year having worked with the Coalition of the Willing uh and this year working with everybody and expecting everybody to come along it's very nice to see that we're beginning to see uh facilitation teachers as facilitators rather than as um uh what we used to call uh stage on the stage stand in deliver you know and the rest of us take it in um uh but becoming more like what we also sometimes talk about as guides on the side that they're facilitating students doing their own learning and that kind of thing so that there was some good movement there this one is teacher collaboration so this is the work that teachers are doing uh together U working on uh unwrapping standards working on planning uh so that they can uh so that if you went in uh one third grade classroom at Desert Valley and you went in another third grade classroom at Desert Valley you're going to see similar things going on that doesn't mean that it's lock stepped and it's and it's scripted but you're going to see the same kind of activities you're going to see the same kind of of learning teaching and learning going on in those classrooms because teachers are working together um and uh so we're seeing we're seeing movement there uh not as much and part of that is because we have so many new teachers a fourth of our teachers are new to us this year4 okay so uh that that will take a little longer to happen this one is curriculum and assessment uh last year very much uh was in the place of uh referencing standards and we figured out very early last year that our teachers somehow had gotten away from even knowing what the standards were or making and or making sure that what they were actually doing in class was related to the standards they needed to be teaching for that grade level um and so um um not so not in such a good place a year though because we have dedicated so much time in our plc's and this year with those extra days that you all approved on the C calendar those extra half days of their really digging into the standards and it's hard work um and I'll be honest there's some resistance because why do we need to do this again well maybe because we didn't really do it the last time or maybe we didn't actually maybe we did it maybe we got into the standards but then we're not translating that into the classroom so it's really nice to see that we are making a big a big jump there in that work this is data for uh Improvement of and interventions um and this just means are we looking at are we looking at formative data are we looking at the data weekly um uh or every other week or once a month or longer if it's longer we don't we want that we want to have um uh the consideration of data feedback our students learning what we are trying to teach and so uh last year we had long Cycles it might have been from one Galileo to the next Galileo we're now doing much more and we have some some places some teams that are doing it weekly we have some that are doing it bi-weekly some monthly but we we don't have anybody doing the long between the big you know between the The Benchmark tests anymore so we made some big growth there and then the top one is leadership uh systems and that has to do with all of us as a leadership team um uh is it top down um hierarchical is it all I tell them what they have to do and then the principales tell the teachers what they have to do or um or are we moving more towards team based uh decision making relative to instruction in the classroom and you can see some movement on that as well so I wanted to point that out to you and as we go through the year uh and do this two more times or three more times two more times then we'll have a different color dots so we'll we'll show where we were last year at that next time and then where we are this year and then at the end of the year so um um my hope is that all of them are moving and um uh that's my expectation it's not just hope Hope's not a plan So the plan is to get everything moving do I really think we're going to be way over here in the green at the end of year two no we might be in one area um maybe but we all know 3 to 5 years and these are significant changes and it's everybody this year not just of the Coalition of the uh any questions about those so the relative position of the dots some of them are farther left than others that's that's indicating that it's sort of beginning yeah this was a yearo to the right this this year so this one showed the least change and this is the teacher collaboration so keep in mind we have a lot of new people in who've not been used to doing that um but we also have some issues with that teacher collaboration um uh there are people like me who tend to just jump into things and be noisy and there are people who are quieter and if somebody isn't controlling me being noisy that quieter person doesn't get a chance to speak so part of it is our teachers learning the same kind of teamwork structure that we are teaching to students and um and we haven't made a lot of movement on that yet but we're working on it and in fact the construction team meeting that we had yesterday uh that was the topic of cons uh discussion among our principles and our instructional coaches um and a long discussion and a good discussion yesterday about how can we be better at our roles of facilitating this this collaboration um I was very proud of the team for talking about um you know for identifying you know well I I haven't done such a good job of or I don't quite know you know the fact that they felt comfortable enough to say I don't quite know how to uh this was U one of the one of the people who is the facilitator for one of the elementary grade levels so keep in mind when we have those meetings that is um say all of our second grade teachers from across the district and so the facilitator in that team uh is one of the principles or one of the coaches and so the conversation I don't know how to um get the team to talk about X whatever X is um when the part of the team are people not from my school and so the rest of the team was helping with that discussion you know and saying U essentially nobody actually said it this way but essentially look you know you're you're facilitating that team I'm facilitating another team that has your teachers and and it's okay it's okay for you to direct this team to do what it's supposed to do even if they're not teachers from your own school so not only is it a work in progress for the teachers it's a work in progress for the leadership team and and the instructional team to make it happen and so we're all learning how to make it better okay so um that one's one that I expect to have a big Movement by the end of the year awesome thank you that was that was a great question yeah okay okay um so that's one thing uh second thing I told you I have a lot um I attended the Arizona uh rural schools Association conference last week in Flagstaff and um those are always good uh for networking with other superintendant particularly um and some good motivational speakers um I do want to acknowledge and congratulate um uh Jennifer vanroy from uh from Mojave count Mojave Valley at elementary school district as the arsa teacher of the year wow okay so she will be uh a candidate for the national teacher of the year and I will tell you that it's really interesting because there have been three uh Mojave County teachers of the year in the last five or six years um and two years years ago the national uh teacher of uh rural teacher of the year was from Arizona so um in spite of negative things that are said and and felt about Arizona schools um we've got some pretty dang good people representing us congratulations to yes and she's been in the community for a long long time so uh she used to teach at the at Mojave High and so you know so this is somebody who really represents the whole County and um and good for her for uh Mojave Valley Elementary School District um one of the things that I like about going to conferences is when I can have in-person contact with uh the people that we frequently talk with on the phone or via email the vendors and um uh so it's uh I had a good conversation with the vendor from uh amplify who that we have several of our programs with and she works with Jen all the time uh I hadn't had any conversation with her before but that was a good conversation I really imp I really liked having a conversation with the Reps from uh Grand Canyon State uh no Canyon State bus uh transportation bus uh bus company uh because they're the ones who worked so hard to bring the price of a special ed bus down to the money that we had available and it was really nice to be able to thank them in person for uh for that and in fact our bus is currently being built uh we're supposed to have it in December so I think that's great um uh uh I also wanted to note to you that there is there was a group of schools five schools down state that had a fiveyear grant to essentially what do what we're doing with ie and their Grant just expired so they have just done the five years uh of work uh moving in the D same direction as we are so that was really uh kind of interesting it was right at the end of the conference so I didn't get much time to talk with that superintendent um uh but they've made great strides in uh in student achievement in those five districts as a result but they had a grant for the whole five years and so uh um yeah that was wonderful for them for those five districts um okay and then the last thing relative to the conference uh on the first day uh I was part of a caucus of uh uh superintendents from literally from four corners of the state um to talk about uh educational policy and the upcoming legislative uh um legislative session um uh the um the Senate Republicans education policy adviser was with us took copious notes from the things that we talked about um you know that that we would like to see uh the legislature consider uh or change some things and uh and then there were also two uh administrative folks from ad and so it was very good opportunity to share with them directly uh things that they all work with that impact us um sometimes in negative ways and um uh they were very open to those discussions that caucus that was the first time that caucus had met and it will be continuing and I will continue to be a part of that so um that was that was a good experience okay uh the den uh our housing project well as you know the houses are not done we're working on it but I thought you might like to see uh they are the houses are all wrapped and they're getting ready to do stuff they've been working inside on paint uh installing cabinets uh and starting to install the floors um but I have samples so uh Cass is going to put up okay so is that the top one Cass this is a okay so on on that picture the kind of tan part is this okay and then the green part is this and the trim is this okay so that's how that's one of the three houses colors okay and then the second house is it's still this for the basic color this will be that uh that tan color and then the trim will be this okay and then the third house again this basic color this as the that front and this as the tri so the three houses you know they the structure is identical um but at least they don't look like Cookie Cutter D you know decorations so I thought you might be interested in seeing yeah seeing those okay and so when's the anticipated finish for any of those uh every week when we meet the timeline shifts uh I am predicting that house number three which is really the one they started on first um uh will be done by the end of the month the other two are about a week behind now the tricky part is this is grant funding and Jen has deadlines for when she can request reimbursements and all of those things so uh needless to say when Mark is out there multiple times a day he's all over them about this stuff and uh we just keep plugging away uh the issue is sometimes is most of the time is if workers don't show up work doesn't get done and uh nobody's quite figured out how to make people show up when they don't so uh that that just drags everything down um uh electric meters and uh water meters uh are in the process of being install um so things are moving right now if you drive by you can't see much because a whole lot of the work is inside uh but I'm guessing in the next few days we will see we will see stucco and and see those things because they're they were ready to they were ready to start that okay okay um we have uh you know we have the SRO who is uh funded by a grant that's up at Fox Creek uh the SRO who's work who has been working with all of the other Elementary districts and with the charter District in the city um uh uh is uh has been replaced and the new one will start on Monday uh it's officer Robert Chapman uh he's been with the force for about 12 years um he actually I met him one night at 3:00 a.m.

grab your blankets sleeping bags friends bring some snacks we'll have concessions there always a great time with our movie night Tuesday night on the football field all right wild cats I'm here with Alejandro Alejandro what year in school are you I'm a senior senior congratulations last homecoming you excited for homecoming week I am very excited for homecoming good what is your favorite Disney movie as we look ahead to our homecoming week Once Upon a Time my favorite Disney movie is The Incredibles love that movie what's your favorite character in the incredibl Mr Incredible Mr Incredible going with the title character Mr Incredible Alejandro is a senior he's ready for homecoming week get excited I'm excited all right wild cats after you go to the movie on Tuesday night we're going to wake up Wednesday what are we going to wear to school Jesse Monsters University College wear just out the College sweatshirts college t-shirts we got gold blue Michigan we got depal here where whatever you want represent your favorite college and then what's going on Wednesday night BPA dodgeball 6 p.m.

at Cafe on the Abbey walks down Main Street and finishes at the American Legion and then there's a big barbecue competition after that with daed in confused playing in the afternoon in an adult kickball tournament starting at 11: a.m.

a [Music] n [Music] n [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] n [Music] n a [Music] n [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music] a [Music] he [Music] welcome in ladies and gentlemen to Columbia Eagle football right here on kchs it is homecoming night they're getting ready to start going over the homecoming court and when they do that we will have that coming to you live as they start announcing everything there we are getting ready to finish up the boys out on the field and then with that we will send it down to the PA announcer and we will go from there so we're going to leave it here we're going to run to a commercial break real quick just want to let you know what we are waiting on and when we come back we'll have homecoming Court announcements right after this [Music] he [Music] n [Music] he [Music] hey Matt congrats on 25 years on the sidelines man appreciate everything you do for Columbia football always good to talk to you when I was there wish you the best Matt thank you for being part of the Columbia Eagles football program for now 25 years 25 years you've been helping the staff um get ready for Friday nights helping the team um being the best in the business as far as ball guys go um so we appreciate everything that you do for us as a staff as a program and even for me back whenever I was a player a lot of people don't know but Matt he's a Olympic medalist and he's as selfless as it gets so again Matt thank you for everything that you do for our football program and thank you for providing me with a Diet Coke every halftime thanks again Matt congratulations welcome back to kchs presented by the Columbia quarterback Club warm-ups are done for the eagles they are getting their sashes on is that what you call it Jared I guess we'll call it a sash so the football players are now getting ready we have I believe it was six um Representatives on court so a good little turnout here for the boys they've got the coin toss getting ready to be taking place here with the wild cats of Salem coming in town in week seven action and Jared let's talk a little bit real quick from the the last week that we've had uh it's been a busy one here tonight already uh we got done with Wood River last week come back home we got uh junior Eagle cheer going on tonight we got homecoming uh we're trying some new things up here in the booth so it's been a crazy week up here for us yeah uh you ain't wrong there um I think they said they had 192 um Girls at their cheer camp this week so that's a real high number um I wish we had that many uh blue jay players back in day that but um yeah going to be a good night Salem in town um usually chalking up a w on this one but you can't look down the road too far um it's a conference game um but everybody should be fired up because it's homecoming all right we're going to send it down to the PA announcers we'll show you who homecoming court is and we'll come back right after this and Grant board Reed is the daughter of Brent and Kate Bailey Reed is active in FCA she is on the J the volleyball team and the co- captain of the Freshman volleyball team Grant is the son of Dave and Jen Bullard Grant is on the golf and baseball teams is active in FCA and the best buddies program our sophomore attendance are Laney ases and Dane quo Lany is the daughter of Patrick and Angel Ames Lany is on the JB volleyball team Dane is the son of Kip and Heather quo Dane is on the varsity football and basketball teams then we have Sloan Wilson and Owen star Sloan is the daughter of William and Laura Wilson slan as part of the Front Ensemble and plays marimba in that CHS marching band she also carries Shield line in local parades Owen is the son of relle aubert Owen is also part of the Front Ensemble and plays bass guitar in the CHS marching band he also carries shield and line in the local Prides as well now for our Junior homecoming attendance jevie Nao and Cooper white Genevie is the daughter of Brad Robin Neo Genevie is a leader in FCA she is a member of the student council and the soccer team Cooper is the son of of TJ and Dana White Cooper is the member of the varsi football team and baseball team then we have hope Schwarz and Keegan Thompson hope is the daughter of Kevin and Kim Schwarz hope is on the basketball and soccer teams she is active in student council FCA and a member of the best buddies program Keegan is the son of Chad Gina Thompson Keegan is on the varsity football team [Applause] Abby miy and Kyle chud Abby is the daughter of Shan Angie minky Abby's a member of the Spanish club and theater program Shel runs track and field and is the co- vice president of student council Kyle is a son of Kevin and Sarah chud how's a varsity member of the basketball and golf team he is also a Fellowship Christian a leetes huddle leader now for our senior homecoming attendants starting with midy mistler and Aaron p midy is the daughter of Josh and Amy mistler M is National Honor Society member and active in competitive cheerleading Aaron is the son of Michael P and Shanah Hawk Aon is also on the varsity football team AA Schmidt and Hudson Bryan AA is the daughter of Kevin and cavy Schmidt AA is the captain of volleyball and soccer teams Hudson is the son of Scotty Bryant and Tara lure Hudson is the member of the National Honor Society blue crew and the varsity football team he is also a gustoff penor award recipient [Music] Emily Zola in Logan horn Emily is the daughter of Scott and Ruthie Zola Emily is the trombone section leader in the CH marching band she's the National Honor Society historian designed sets for the theater program and is a scalar bow member Logan is a son of Ken and Stephanie Han Logan is also an alto saxophone section leader in the CH marching band he pares participates in the theater program scholar bowl and is a member of the National Honor Society and last but not least we have Jade Becker and River Randle Jade is the daughter of Rick and Tony Becker Jade is on the soccer team and a member of the best buddies program river is the son of Lance and Pamela Randall river is a point guard for the varsity basketball team and also member of the FCA we can get a big round of our applies for our 2024 homecoming [Applause] attendance congratulations to all of the homecoming Court members out there and uh one other thing real quick before we get going we got a birthday in the house so Jared we made you a little bit of a video happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear friend Happy Birthday to you Happy 25th birthday Jared man thanks Alex cry up here man thanks Mrs G for uh sending those photos so quickly today so Jared we got 25 years up here and uh man how was your birthday today started a new job this week too yeah uh busy week for me got a new job over in uh South County Jefferson bar Cemetery so um little bit of a switch up for me but good week so here we are tonight uh I want to thank top shooters for bringing the food up to uh the Press Box today we uh had some wings a pizza I never had a pizza down at top shooters before but great pizza the Gerber uh with that we had some trash Wings trash yep toasted ravioli everything there so thank you to top shooters for that and our pregame meal for the boys is going to be brought to you by Mason vagley and I'm Aaron I'm Mason and we're here at live shiners because we'd like to thank them for being a long time sponsor for Columbia quarterback club i' like to thank them for sponsoring and making our pregame meal it was great come in check it out won't be disappointed no Eagles no Eagles thank you Reef schneiders for providing tonight's meal for the boys uh Jared let's go ahead we're going to make it a quick uh pregame here uh let's talk a little bit about last week Eagles dominate their way to Victory offensive side of the ball 180 yards rushing 174 through the air 354 yards total offense last week yeah I think it all started up front um especially in that first quarter I think we were up 21 nothing early um and then we got to the second quarter and you know how that went I wasn't too happy with the way the second quarter went I think it was a 12 and a half minute drive officially yeah that's that's crazy and that is not going to get you uh far in the playoffs but um hopefully we made some adjustments well we definitely made adjustments at that halftime um last week but hopefully uh make some adjustments this week and um see what Salem is running and see if we can get another W tonight you wanted to start fast that's what you said in first play of the game 67 yards Logan Hicks on a quarter or a run and I said man Jared how much quicker you want to start he said well the kickoff would have been nice so like you said started quick 13-minute drive I think that is incredible we weren't happy with it but if you're uh Wood River that's impressive to be able to do then you go to the uh third quarter three touchdowns for the Eagles Logan Hicks had a 22 uh yard run Keegan Thompson 21 yd field goal and a passing touchdown for seven yards in the third and then in the fourth quarter Keegan Thompson another touchdown a safety a kickoff return for a touchdown and a uh recovery of a fumble and let's talk about that big man rumbling bumbling scoring a touch that was hilarious anytime you got a big man touchdown I mean you got to go crazy a little bit um and I think that was the one that put US 60 points on the board haven't scored that many points I think since 2017 so um when you're scoring 60 points um and you're only letting up uh 12 I mean you it's pretty darn good that win was coach Hunter's 150th regular season win at Columbia so uh thanks to Howie for getting that stat that's something I never even thought about it seemed like just like yesterday he had win number 100 so officially 150 during the regular season and uh it was a great game through and through but the surprising thing with Wood River having the ball for 13 minutes we only held the ball for 15 minutes and still put up 60 points yeah I think it's CU we were scoring in two or three plays um I think especially on the offensive side of things that we saw last week we're getting the ball out to a lot of different receivers um I know Keegan got involved a lot more than we've seen all season long had a couple just little screen routes um and just letting him do his thing in open space and that's one thing we've asked get Keegan the football get your uh um get your athletes the ball and let them make some plays and it was nice to be able to see that last week with Keegan doing that and then after that I mean Logan Hicks I think he had four touchdowns if I'm not mistaken so four touchdowns that takes him to 10 for the year um and just kind of kind of quietly doing that he uh he's just been able to get it done doesn't really do anything spectacular just makes the plays when he needs to I think we talked about it last week I feel like every time he touches the ball he's getting faster and faster with each rep and each time we see him run so um props to Logan this season he's worked his tail off um since he was a sophomore starting um all over the field on defense so um it's nice to see him finally getting the end zone a lot and um having a good season so we're about eight minutes away I think the team will be coming down within the next five minutes or so uh let's talk a little bit about the Salem wild cats coming in uh one and five on the season haven't really done anything too spectacular um just trying to get some things rolling um came in Lost to Calia in week 1 4235 got shut out vers Benton 56 to nothing lost to Mount Zion in week three 3414 they beat East Alton Wood River 428 got beat by Roxana 40 to4 and last week beat by Breeze Central 49 to7 so given up a ton of points and we got to like how that looks coming into tonight yeah kind of the same thing as last week uh tried to get going early if especially I didn't see if we get the ball first but I know coach Warner usually has about six seven eight plays already in place um that the offense knows so hopefully we can can uh come out and get going early they come in passing averag they only have uh 731 yards through the air so not really passing too much if you uh break that down to per game they're only averaging 121 yards through the air so primarily they're going to be on the Run most of the time where they have 1,077 yards 179 yards on the ground so boy that's a beautiful sky Highline right there on the getting ready here that's awesome beautiful so you look at Jared uh three keys to the night what are you thinking um I think since it's a big night like homecoming you got to still stay ready everybody's probably got their mind on the dance tomorrow and whatnot um but I think you got to just come out and be ready because you never know what could happen um two I'd say show off for the big crowd have and have a good time with the uh big crowd um especially with the cheerleader that thing that we had um before the game and then with homecoming going on the big crowd thanks coach St appreciate you look at Kia Conference standings this is week four in the Kia conference free Central leading the way like we expected 6-0 3 and0 in the conference Roxanna 5- one 3-0 and then you go to Columbia in third place 4-2 2- one Salem comes in one and five 1-2 in conference East Alon Wood River 2 and4 0 and3 and freeberg 1 and5 0 and3 so this is a uh a big game here Columbia really needs this win and I can't believe I'm ever going to say this I think we're Breeze Central fans tonight too yeah and I think with tonight's win you never you never know uh with five wins if you're going to get in the playoffs but that's always another uh thing in the back of your mind five five wins usually in past years has got you in the playoffs so hopefully tonight we come out strong and um then we'll have a real big big game next week so the Eagles come into this game with 26 playoff points so if you get those five wins and you get uh 26 playoff points that you obviously got three more weeks to add to it so you like where you're sitting our opponents this week Moder day host Alto Alto comes into that game six and0 absolutely dominating Chris John said they should win the state championship easily um they got the running back who's the running back for alov orgon yeah he's going to work I I don't know his name dominates stud yeah waterl 5- one is at Civic Memorial surprising 5- one I feel like um good for our playoff points though yeah it works out well before we go on any further here come the Columbia Eagles football team with the blackout tonight huh got the black blackout with the students we still have the black Jersey he did uh I don't think so I just saw a cheerleader bite the dust on the 40 though oh did she someone hit the sprinkler at Buffalo Al Wings a little early or four minutes early so we go on with the rest of the uh schedule here tonight Taylorville goes to matun um and then after that Rox Anna and um Central or playe and that's going to be the big game that we're going to be watching um that's a conference Championship lot of implications on that and with that and said if Roxana or if Central wins rather they will be at least locking themselves in for conference Roxana same concept and then we would go to Central and that's a big game too um so a lot of things got to play out with that freeberg goes or is hosting East Alton Wood River and then Jersey and msca will be playing to round that out but like I was saying so if Central wins tonight they're guaranteed at least a share of the conference Championship uh if we would go in and win next week then that could throw some wrenches in the fire Roxanna I mean there's so many things to really talk about but it's always good if you have an opportunity to talk about a conference Championship oh yeah especially so we are three minutes away now from kickoff once again we saw the start of the coin flip and then we looked away and we missed the rest of it so we don't know who's getting the football I saw Salem sent two captains out we had three this week uh they were the same same ones Hudson Hicks and Mason and the two for Salem were two big kids I can't remember their numbers but 76 and 80 definitely if you look at their sizes they're going to have us outsized between those two positions 76 coming in Frank Potter gry 61 290 and number 865 240 both seniors so we'll uh try to get get you some more names and numbers here in a quick minute we're going to send it down to the band for the national anthem and when we come back we'll have kickoff and Columbia Eagle football right after this Lieutenant Colonel Xander Noel Cadet Captain Sarah Tor Cadet second Lieutenant Julius sson Cadet senior master sergeant Hunter corbus and Cadet Airman Ian Kelly ladies and gentlemen the national anthem [Applause] another great rendition of the national anthem by the band they are very consistent week in and week out I agree they have been for a long time too we going a little window action we're going to go a little window open it's a great night here tonight got to move Crips autographed picture here before we lose that so tonight ladies and gentlemen we're going to have a replay Booth up in the booth so sorry you're not going to get to see a replay we're still working on that we uh we got a little monitor over here we're going to watch everything live hey guys how's everyone doing so maybe TJ you'll just have to swing that around real quick and uh we'll get it in there so replay Instant Replay for us about 30 seconds delayed so I don't know how instant that is but we're going to have it tonight Jared great to be back on our Press Box too yes it is I mean sitting on the ground at Wood River last week knees hurt we got plenty of room up here now can can spread out so it's always good to be back home let's see I'm going to assume based on who's out there we are going to be receiving the kick so something I was looking at the uh Stats today Jared we have great returns as far as I think we're averaging close to 30 yards of return for the year on I think it's pretty much all kickoffs a couple punts are in there here and there but Logan Hicks leading the way five returns 31 yard average cam janick has two he's averaging 20 yards Jason Nelson three returns for 34 and then Coupe has one for 23 so uh pretty good if you're catching the ball at the five you're getting yourself at to the 35 that's a good field position for you and that's kudos to coach gendall there for making that happen yeah and you know coach Herer got to love having good field position start out a game so and I don't think we've had a kick return or punt return yet this year so hopefully uh did last week J had one oh yeah you're right you're right you're right 55 yards no kick return then oh it was a punt wasn't it I think so well you can always have one right now homecoming night here at Colombia blackout night here in Colombia kokia conference mashup Friday Night Under The Lights what else could you ask for beautiful [Music] sunset Eagles and wild cats are underway and it's going to be a little bit of a squib going to bounce at the 29 and go out of bounds I heard a lot of whistles being blown though pen Y flag on the play I guess they're going to have to re kick most likely what was that was that last week or two weeks ago when they kicked out of bounds about four times in a row they were all the way back at that was two weeks ago wasn't it was last time we were at home yeah because they were kicking it from the 20 got about five penalties in a row so I guess that's going to be a false start penalty I believe is how that's motioned they uh cross the line of scrimmage before the kick happened looks like they're just going to Pooch it too they're not really going to put it in the back Row's hands even the second back row so see what this kicker wants to do here number 25 Logan McKinley is doing the kicking for the Wildcats a sophomore going to be a pooch the other way this time and it's going to be caught at the 41 and that's where the Eagles offense is going to take over and the Eagles offense is here is uh doing some pretty good things they're catching defenses and getting uh getting a mix of things going on something that I kind of want to see a little bit tonight is little bubble action and some screen action that we've been seeing the last couple weeks um anytime you can get your athletes on the outside edge and going against safeties and Corners got a pretty good shot like we're going to line up in that same formation that we're usually opening up in too ball on the left hash hand the ball off to Jace cuts it back up F and he's going to be brought down gain of two brought down by number four for the wild cats Angel Sado I think we've seen that play on the opening drive first play of the offensive stand uh almost every every game this year you got about two or three options off that with Jace coming in motion and Mason can pull that sometimes single receivers out wide Jace is going to go over now we're going to have doubles to the left side tight end right sniffer left running back is a pistol back behind vagley vagley takes a snap turns around hands it off to Hicks goes up the middle he gets good for about seven and a half we needed eight we'll see if they're going to give it to us looks like it's going to be short third and inches now see if you can get him to jump off sides here get an easy first down I wouldn't show that yet you can need that later on in the game doubles to the right side ball in the left hash cam is your sniffer back I believe that's Jace behind vaguely play action throw it out Hicks makes the catch he gets up to the 50 lowers a shoulder gets to the 45 good for a first down into Salem wild cat territory little RPO action there vaguely faking the handoff and throwing just a simple little bubble route like I said earlier something I want to see a lot from this offense because it's Unstoppable if you run it right Jay motion hands the ball off to him goes to the left side going out wide he finally puts his foot in the ground ball bounces up in the air going to be recovered by Salem penalty flag on on the play ball just popped straight up in the air yeah it did look like Jace tried to cut it up right in front of that corner over there looks like he put his helmet right on the football Salem's going to take over now at their own 4 four yard line not what you want on uh your opening drive but you look at homecoming night it kind of had a little bit of a lull of a feeling here to start the game a little quiet up here and not much energy Salem going to go under Center single receiver out to the top of the screen tight end right motion man going to be number three they're going to hand it off he's going to get slung down by Hudson Bryant got fooled by nothing loss of four on the [Music] play lyri Black was the ball carrier and Hudson just reached out pretty good strength there to pull him down K looked pretty fast coming in motion too great job by Hudson just to get his hands on him and throw him down Hudson just went through untouched too tackled never even reached out for him doubles to the left side sniffer back right running back about seven yards deep motion man this time is going to be number 12 going across they fake it to him pass quarterback's looking deep he's chased down by Hudson who forces a throw out of bounds incomplete third and 14 Hudson Bryan already two plays in kind of been doing this all season long too getting in that back field has a couple block punts just got a great nose for the football I'd like to go through and I was talking to coach Jermaine about this the other night I'd like to go through what teams are averaging coming into a game against Colombia and then see what the Columbia defense gives up I bet you it's under average most of the time if not all the time did you ask him about the 12-minute drive last week yeah he didn't say much about that though trips to the right side quarterback in shock they're going to hand it off nothing going this time it's cam janic making the play at the line of scrimmage fourth and 14 now for the wild cats janik's another kid this season kind of started as middle linebacker and then Coach hermaine wanted to move him up to the D line put his hand in the grass so great job by him to get in the back field a lot just like Hudson Bryant loss of about five yards on this first drive by Salem looks like they are going to punt cam comes into the game 27 total tackles four of them are far a loss deep man is Nelson for the Eagles his knee was down his knee was very close to being down gets the punt off waved fair catch at the 31 his knee was definitely Down's check the instant replay check the instant replay up here Brennan thanks for bringing this up bud love this so the punter was punting from about the 28 steps up definitely had his KNE down on the ground could hear coach stump he was calling for it to be uh not a badt flips the field Eagles take over around the 30 841 here in the first quarter doubles to the left side empty backfield just going to be a quick pass play to Hicks who's going to catch it gets up field now gets five yds six and going to be thrown down physical tackle there on the sideline gain of about six maybe seven bring up a second and four we'll call it there's that bubble again cam flying out making a good block just get the ball in your playmaker's hands and let them do their thing ball in the left hash doubles right pistol back behind vaguely takes a snap hands it off up the middle good for a first down and a couple more after that maybe a gain of 10 first and 10 now for the Eagles from their own 47 yd line looks like the eagles are wanting to go a little Tempo here they get lined up right away look over to Herer they're ready to go throw a bubble here right now there's nobody even over Logan this time it's going to be play action Logan catches it he gets up field good block out of Keegan there again gain a 10 maybe looks like they're going to give it to him first and 10 for the Eagles yeah when there's only the corner out there and you got the safety about 12 yards off and the linebacker's not even over Logan which I mean he should be I don't know if they're not teaching that but now four is going to come out a little bit and get in front of hicks just a little bit same formation balls on the right hash this time it's going to be a handoff following blockers is Nelson he gets up to the 35 near another first down but it's going to be second and two good movement here for the Eagles offense looks like we're going to flip the formation and I bet we run the same play getting about at least six yards per play here on this drive ball on the right hash tight end right Nelson to the right sniffer back is janick to the left motion man Nelson they're going to hand the ball off to him he cuts up field good cut and he's going to get five or six yards going to be another first down for the Eagles and we're not really running anything inside so Lyman really haven't had to worry about much so far in this one probably just Zone blocking if I had to guess right nobody's really pulling yeah oh yeah you had 75 quivero pulling on that one but like I said if just get your athletes out in open space and don't even mess with those big guys in the middle B in the left hash doubles to the right side Hicks motion man to the left they fake it bootleg bagely throws it he's got cam at the 20 cam gets up field lowers the boom tackled at the 10 physical run first and 10 for the Eagles great ball by Mason Begley there rolling out to his right side put it right over that linebacker's head where janic makes an easy catch and absolutely mowed over somebody I like that play there cuz cam looks like he's going to be going out for a block and then he just keeps on running through that kid just caught cam janic right there oh look at this a little trickery I don't even know how to call it it's okay they'll let the play do the talking it's a touchdown for the Eagles what in the world just happened there Mason was backwards when he clapped too that's hilarious even carried out the fake toss boy I don't know what was going on on that play it had me all all messed up looks like Keegan will be doing the Pats this week Mason on the hold snap Place kick up the upright and good that takes the Cory Pharmacy scoreboard Columbia 7 Salem zero we're going to run to a commercial break real quick when we come back we'll have the Eagles defense on the field with 608 remaining to go in the first quarter congratulations Matt on 25 years of service helping out Columbia football you're a bigger part of the program than you'll ever know the Eagles wouldn't have been able to accomplish a lot of the things they've accomplished without you congratulations Matt just wanted to say thank you for everything you've done for Columbia football the last 25 years um you know just grown up in the program I don't know what else it looks like without you um so thank you for for being a rock solid foundation for the Eagles for so long and uh continue to do what you're doing because you're making an impact on everyone hey Pat Baker here thanks for being a part of Columbia football for 25 years and being a part of our community and contributing to success of our program most of all being a selfless member of a great organization you're what Columbia football is all about serving other people and being the best you can be thanks for everything you do go Eagles welcome back to kchs presenting by the Columbia quarterback Club Friday Night Lights Eagles Take a 70 lead over the wild cats of Salem Keegan doing the kick in this week sends it deep right down the middle bounces at the 15 picked up at the 10 Return Man Gets behind a big wall of blockers and finally sneaks out of there good little physical run gets up to the 31 yd line 32 maybe and that's where Salem's going to take over you got to love that out of the Columbia offense after fumbling on that first drive making a good stand on defense three out and then running probably the same play all the way down to inside the five when we had some trickery six minutes left in this first quarter as always let us know where you're listening from Good Friday night here in Columbia like to know where you're coming from Salem's going to have doubles to the left side ball on the right hash quarterback hands It Off right up the middle nothing going for big number 22 he's hit right away by Hudson Bryant trayon Clark 6125 is the running back on that play got the Klein Schmid family listening from the shed there you go second and eight now for Salem just notice the Freshman I think he's a freshman motion man for Wildcats this time they're going to fake it to him up the middle running back with a good run this time good for about eight or nine first down is that xman that is number three that is X I had to make sure I looked down and wasn't sure of the number so Xavier vaguely getting the start for the Eagles in the secondary he's back there at corner or at safety with mace mayay different formation here for the wild cats two running backs almost like a wishbone I guess Mason's up at linebacker now and the ball off right up the middle Gigan Thompson's there first gets drugged for about two yards second and seven so it looks like Mason vagle is lining up at safety and then kind of rotating up to that linebacker position and then X moves over to one high safety so we'll see what's going on there if Mason's going to Blitz any big guys up front looks like minky and Corbin with Cam janick as the other big kid we'll call him and then Hudson Bryan on that edge on that far side shotgun this time for Salem pass caught by number three good job there by the Eagles defense getting there it was led by Jace Nelson sniffed it out wasn't able to get blocked third and long this three looks pretty Shifty but defense putting the clamps on not letting him get anywhere brings up another third down this one is a little bit more manageable in their last one see if they want to throw it again or keep it on the ground Eagles fans are not sure if they want to get into it or not ball on the left hash single receivers out wide pistol back with the quarterback boot leg number Nine's looking for a man deep this time he's going to be forced to throw incomplete hit on the play by Logan Hicks fourth down now now for the wild cats shout out Tera Germaine listening from Nashville Nashville Tennessee or Illinois Tennessee quarterback for Salem this year bavo is a sophomore 65 completions on 103 attempts 63% completion ratio there averaging 11 yards per attempt per completion rather see if Hudson can get in this back field here punt gets off going to hit at about the 26 pick it up and it's a good bounce for Salem and it's going to go to the 19 yd line if you are looking for something to do here in the next couple of weeks the uh sons of the American Legion will be hosting their veterans honor queue on Friday November 8th and Saturday November 9th on the e8th is the barbecue and beer Dance all you can eat barbecue pork and chicken AB draft beer products tickets I believe are $30 a piece doors open at 5:30 dinner at 6:30 live music by the Southside Johnny band that's on Friday on Saturday they have the veterans parade I'll give you that in a second doubles the left side turn around hand the ball off to Hicks up the middle gets behind his blockers he's going to get about five yards before getting tackled the veterans parade starts at 10:00 a.m.

this time it's kept by vaguely good pull good read good run good for 10 yards first and 10 for the Eagles at own 35 yd line and Mason's gotten a lot better at reading that the end pulled that one there first run of the night takes it for a first down he does good does better at getting the ball into the running back's stomach and then holding it and riding it a lot longer you can Flash it doesn't do the same thing though motion man Nelson counter Hicks up the middle lot of grass in front of him 4540 spin move out of a tackle down at the 36 yd line of Salem no Flags first and 10 Eagles I think if he keeps taking that to Salem's sideline he might be gone looks like he had a good angle on that safety closing in on him decided to cut it back up middle of the field oh yeah he's close there number three was the only one that could have really got him if he cut that way but first down Eagles under two minutes now in this first quarter another good drive going we'll call it trips to the left side empty back field now they're going to make it doubles left pistol back Nelson got a hurry 5 seconds on the play clock looks like we're going to get it off we do there it is throws it out to Hicks Gets behind his blocker oh spin move again maybe even t two spin moves finally brought down Keegan had a block going I think he let off a little bit until they make you uh not throw that bubble route I mean I'd keep doing it like I said earlier you're getting at least six yards if you hand it off or just throw it to your Playmakers on the outside it's been working so far in this first quarter I just don't understand why they don't have a safety or linebacker over the other receiver out there ocean man Nelson hands the ball off to him good block there kick out he lowers his shoulder I believe the kickout block there came from the Eagles number 52 KAS musk up I didn't think that play was going anywhere and all a sudden KAS kicked the last guy out great pickup and that's the thing about having a couple big guys on that defensive side though if we're going to be running to the outside a little bit with our Speeders it's a little tougher to catch up to him the only passing attempt we've seen are those bubble routes in the one to janic inside the 15 yd line so we'll see if coach orner wants to keep it on the ground because it's working empty backfield now doubles to the right side ball in the hash quarterback vaguely is going to keep it himself he runs to the right side gets knocked out of Bounds at the 10 gain of four what I would love right there you got a uh just manto man on the top of the screen with Jace making a jump contest just throw it up to him or what I don't know that corner's pretty AR little Arrow Route I'd go a little arrow let him have the ball and make a play if he get stopped turn that into a wheel and you got it in the corner of the end zone doubles on the left side Jace motion man hand the ball off going out wide no blocking that time for the Eagles gets up to the 10 probably going to take us to the quarter as we're under 20 seconds now I'm surprised coach Warner wanted to go to that wide side of the field usually likes going to the boundary but wanted to bounce it to the other side of the field looks like it is going to be end of the quarter so that's going to do it after one Columbia leads the Paul Cory Pharmacy scoreboard 70 over the wild cats we're going to run to a commercial we'll be back right after this hi my name is Cameron Jan Mason vagley and we'd like to take a second to shout out Matt K on his 25th year as a ball boy in Columbia Eagles organization GP you are listening to Columbia Eagle football live right here on kchs this broadcast is proudly brought to you by the Columbia quarterback club for 14 years the Columbia QB Club has donated over $100,000 to CHS and other youth Leagues with one event in the summer and one in the winter there are plenty of ways to donate to the club check out their Facebook page or visit 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it um I think you keep your offense on the field we've been getting six seven eight yards per play so I think you run what got you down there like I said Bubble route has been there all night long so we'll see if uh coach Warner wants to just try to make this two possession game or try to score another touchdown the Columbia quarterback Club is hosting a raffle 300 tickets will be sold at $10 a piece there will be three winners the first ticket pulled will get $50 the 150th ticket pulled will get $150 and the last ticket pulled will get $300 so if you would like to have a chance at winning some cash and support the Columbia quarterback Club who makes this possible go to their Facebook page or email them at columia QB [email protected] to get your tickets looks like we are going to take the points here going to be a 30 yard attempt good place kick is up and it is good there we go 30 yard field goal out of Keegan Thompson is good takes that for car for Cory Pharmacy scoreboard 10 to zero with 1126 to go in the first half we will try talking to coach Robbie Walters on cheer night he said that he would try to come up at halftime so we'll try to do a little interview with him and Mrs her also said since we couldn't get with her a couple weeks ago she would do an interview tonight too so hopefully we'll be able to knock those two interviews out during halftime so make sure you stick with us to hear what they have to say your mom did a very good job a couple weeks ago I didn't really listen to much of it but a slap in the face I mean she listens to every game that we call and you she missed my biggest game so oh you're just not going to let let her ever live that down are you nope yeah never not for Brett Michaels you kidding me are you kidding me just kidding love you Mom Keegan's going to send it deep again this time he's going from right to left good kick once again going to fall at the 10 be picked up at about the eight good job by the Eagles getting down the field led by number 18 for the Eagles I believe that's Cameron steel and number two Logan Hicks Getting The Tackle at about the 20 yard line yeah steel had about three guys coming to block him and blew every single one of them up big props to him on that play and anytime you can start him inside the Red Zone on the other side of the field that's always a good thing great job special teams sometimes it's almost better when you have a kick that like takes a weird bounce like more than a Touchback because you never know if you can get a fumble you might be able to go down and recover it quarterback takes the snap and hands the ball off right up the middle gain of about four maybe Max brings up a second and six 77 is a big boy 62 295 their whole old line is probably over [Music] 250 Eagles have four down linemen two linebackers going to roll over now to a little bit of a coverage play action number Nine's rolling out chased down by Hudson going to be short of a first down good job there by Coupe going from coverage into to making a tackle third and [Music] two quarterback for Salem like we said earlier 721 yards passing only 11 yards rushing on the year interesting third and short single receivers out wide pistol back with the quarterback who's in shotgun tried to hard count looked like we jumped didn't call it though need to get a stop here if you're the Eagles turn around hand the ball off up the middle good for a first down brought down by number three Xavier vaguely but it's going to be a gain of four four first and 10 now for Salem and if you're salum here probably just keep running the ball don't want Columbia to get the ball too much in this first half already 10 nothing so if you can take a little bit of time off the clock keep it out of our hands number 22 is the running back he's a sophomore 373 yards rushing quarterback slings it out wide going to be good for we're going to call it 8 yards on defense for the Eagles was number 14 Hayden Hub that's something we talked about last week too with our Corners they're already seven eight yards deep and then Snapp of the ball they're dropping back so all he ran was a two yard hitch route turned it into about eight- yard gain simple as that single receiver doubles to the left side quarterback under Center and an eye formation turn around fullback good for a first down going to be the left side goes out of bounds tackled by number 12 Mason vagle good for a first and 10 knocked out of Bounds at the 50 915 on the game clock like 18 had a couple words for Mason after that hit on the sideline number 18 rushing on the year averaging five yards a carry 2011 yards on the season doubles to the left side two running backs quarterback under Center motion man's number three fake it to him they're going to come up the middle though this time going to be brought down is number 18 Two Carries in a row call it a gain of four second and six Keegan gets credit with the tackle four down lineman for the Eagles two linebackers cp's creeping up we'll call him a linebacker now pass play to left side double move looking deep going to throw it up in the air and it's going to go incomplete good defense there out of the Eagles number 18 Cameron steel didn't get fooled on the double move forces a third and six now he kind of got him he had about two or three yard separation but great job by Steel to get back in the play never really turned his head but never made too much contact that interfered and looked like the ball hit him right in the back of the head brings up third down clock does stop 8:15 left first half same formation for the wild cats going to hand it off go to the left side going to be brought down gain a two brings up a fourth down who was it that stayed home out there on that wide side was that Ste again looked like Keegan was back there first but it did look like steel was able to make the tackle well you look at Corbin and Mankey they're really holding things up in the middle and it's forcing them to have to go out wide could have been a hold Keegan Thompson there but fourth and five looking like it's going to be an attempt out of the wild cats eye formation doubles to the left side turn around play action nothing going cam janick wasn't fooled turn over on Downs After the sack of 10 yards eagles with good field position quarterback looked down the middle of the field looking for his receiver and there was literally nobody ran a route I don't think I don't think the tight end ran a route they're just looking for a pop pass out of him it was 80 on this right side yeah I think he was supposed to release and he never did he had no one the throw do that's got to be a helpless feeling good job there by cam Janet getting to the Back Field making the sack again good field position here coach Horner's offense definitely want a touchdown here going into the half be nice Cam's lining up it's going to be a double tight stack CPS the motion man fake it to him bagely throws it to the left side he's got Nelson at about the 25 makes the catch out of Bounds at the 18 no flags big gain first and 10 inside the Red Zone what a beautiful ball by vagle there put it right where it needed to go not on a line not too high in the air and Jayce using his speed to get under it love the play call too great ball single receiver out wide this time is going to be Keegan never forget about Hudson Bryan at that tight end position he's only got about two Targets on the year but Hicks up the middle puts his foot in the ground keeps his feet moving near first down a second push gives him a first down first and goal at the five first and goal Bryant hop off look like Hill going to check in for him oh ref just took a spill on the five hopefully he's all right Crips down there to make sure he's all right who's on the stands yelling man down he said he's good to go so we're got first down and goal here going to be in that wild cat with Cam janick in the back field and run it to the right side get behind his blockers keeps his feet moving got two guys on him doesn't matter touchdown Eagles cam Janet good for five yards into the end zone had two would be tacklers drug him into the end zone with them got him at the four or three yd line and just like to said was dragging him along for a little hay ride oh I like the little fall reference there what's your favorite season Fall hands down same what's your least favorite I used to hate winter but I think I hate summer more now I don't like the heat Keegan on for the P good snap hold kick is up push it a little bit to the right but it's good Matt good catch back there on the reception even he's got to let everyone know too he shows it off too so that takes to Cory faracy scoreboard with 632 remaining Columbia 17 Salem zero in a game that I was not sure what to expect on homecoming I'm lik in this first half though yeah like you said earlier it was a little weird feeling to open up the game not really a flow in the 20 minutes of pregame but nice flow for the Columbia offense to start this one off I love how KP catches it keeps smiling yeah then he holds the ball up shows everybody little bit of a smoke in the air after the smoke machines that were bought by the quarterback Club good little little addition this year have them going off when the guys run out of the tunnel then we move them over and uh I think that's Ted Killian moves them down here and sets them up so that we can have a little fun during the game with them Air's not moving too well tonight though and uh hanging out just sitting Keegan with a new approach now with just a quick two steps kicks it off going to be caught at the 14 yd line up the middle there you go we run right past him and couple guys stayed home like they're supposed to do made the tackle is Logan Hicks at the 29 yd line does Logan come off the field I don't think so got a couple guys that do not come off the field Salem's offense will take over at the 29 yd line 626 left in this second quarter Eagles lead 170 offenses look good the last three drives but on that first drive had a fumble good to see couple scores up on the board now quick hitch out here closest to us good job there once again Cameron steel making the tackle on number three who's the leading receiver with 357 yards coming in lyri black and that's that's five yards a play I don't off should be running that more if Corners are playing seven eight yeah 10 yards off even Ren was a three yard hitch again I know early in the season especially at modern day Jace got burnt two times it was just a bad throw so I don't know if that's uh Incorporated in their minds that want to be that Deep Off the Ball slow snap this time hit in the back field but bounces out it's number 22 who gets the maybe a gain of two he's a big boy 261 205 running the football what did you just say what numberb he's a big boy 262 No 61 205 number 22 he threw a lot of numbers there together real quick I didn't know what was going on you're right he is a big kid look like Corbin and minky were on the initial hit just bounced right off of them third and two ball at the 37 yd line doubles to the right side quarterback under center with two running backs Salem changing the play Maybe keeping it Eagles have everybody up to the line of scrimmage hand the ball off going to be good for about four yards first and 10 as they cross the yard to gain first and 10 from the [Music] 41 as we watch the replay it's third and two Jace is standing seven yards off I mean I'd run bubble this way couple times but you do have Cooper white kind of standing over one of the wide receivers on that last play so tight end moving to the right side going to hand the ball off up the middle two missed tackles spin move gain a nine second and one at the Eagles [Music] 49 Second two like Janik checks out Cas musoff CHS checks in single receivers out wide quarterback in shotgun there it is again throws it in the dirt in the turf gain of one and a half third and inches see there that was just a bad ball by the quarterback but still able to get a little closer here there he was only about five yards off only ran a yard and a half route High formation quarterback under Center turns around hands it off nothing going I think he's Stu he's short fourth and one now of course watch the football here clock is still running so just over three minutes left in this half and Salem really hasn't had one big play Knock on Wood quarterback under Center once again fourth and one turn around hand the ball off they're going to try going up the middle got it I think he's going to get it by about a yard Mason saying no officials say first down just based off how their offenses look tonight got under three minutes now don't know if they have a lot of time if they're going to be running the ball try to get some points on the board before the half Wildcats in Eagle territory now at the 49 quarterback turns throws it left side caught missed tackle brought down by Xavier vagley out of bounds missed tackle that time is that going to be pool out there it is five yard gain second and five still don't get it Alex I know we're thinking about the double moves but I haven't been beat on a double move yet mire we playing Seven yard off the off the ball quarterback under Center again doubles the left side motion man I believe that's number 12 coming across the formation they're looking deep quarterback slings it up in the air it's going to be picked off by Mason vley at the 18 he's going to get up field now spins out of one tackle knocked down at the 25 where the Eagles are going to take over 224 to go in the first half looked like 18 did have Mason beat there but not a very good Ball by the quarterback was in the air for way too long had two guys in his face when he was trying to get it off great job by Mason to be there so the Eagles have all three timeouts 225 remaining 75 yards in front of them hopefully get on the scoreboard once again already leading 17-0 motion man Hicks comes back to a pistol position behind vagley hands the ball off up the middle puts his foot in the ground gets a couple are you conservative here or you want to try to get another score I'm I like points I'm going for it look like we're going to be in kind of an empty set here now motion man Nelson fake it to him vaguely keeps it himself who had up the middle goes to the right side now good blocking out there by Keegan Out of Bounds at the 41 first and 10 148 remaining good job by Mason to get out of bounds stop that clock don't have to use any timeouts can save them for when you get down closer to the end zone doubles to the left side tight end right sniffer back left is Janik pistol back is Nelson going to be a little bubble this time caught by Thompson who Gets behind the wall of blockers gets up to about the 49 yd line gain of nine and a half second and short it's a little tunnel screen there for Keegan to get him involved on the offense a little bit I haven't seen that play too much anymore I mean that was the Brandon prior killer right there that was the bread and butter of the Eagles offense for years remember Eric Eric Reed used to make a living off that play Jordan Holmes used to make a living off that play empty pulled by vagle up the middle going to be good for a first down forward progress kind of fell stops the clock momentarily at 104 first and 10 timeout Eagles good start to this drive I like the flow of it I like that timeout right there it was a quick and decisive timeout as well you didn't waste any time 104 to go now you probably thinking about throwing it here because running the ball you're going to make that clock tick even more so put it in the air if it's incomplete clock will stop sometimes out of timeouts you see coach Herer getting into his bag of tricks sometimes so we'll see if he draws something up that Salem might not be ready for student section's trying to get a cheer going over here and I think they start with the Freshman up top and uh well freshman got some work to do in front of him oh the cheerleaders are trying to get it going I don't know what they're trying to spell right now that was a good one first and 10 for the Eagles good showing out of the students here you guys have any toilet paper and trees up in your subdivision this week nope not our house maybe tonight nope I'll be having a bonfire so I'll be hearing it if it's going on doubles to the right side Nelson motion man counter fake it vagley looking deep middle of the field Keegan 15 yd line out of his reach keep running Keegan that's a touchdown there's a flag down at the line of scrimmage like you said coming out of the timeout coach Horner's got some tricks up his sleeve fakes the hand off to the motion fakes the counter looks deep and great pass protection too normally uh last couple years we haven't had that much time to especially run a play like that that's how we lost to wesland my junior year play like that with trying to spin around do this do that didn't have the protection and you fumble no before I turned around I was sacked oh doubles the left side pistol back running back is Nelson hand the ball off to him up the middle nothing going loss again on the play now I think you're just going to take this nope they're going to call a timeout bubble was open there again if he just wants to throw it out the Hicks fors kind of playing over him but not really playing he's still four yards away from him get that ball out open Bas let number two go but earlier they were just lining up on like an outside linebacker weren't even looking at Hicks as that slot receiver that's why he was able to get four or five easy catches on simple bubble routes what's your favorite homecoming tradition oh man um I know the Fridays were usually pretty fun all the games going on that's that I'd probably say the games on Friday games on Friday yeah then everybody's hyped for the game on Friday night and then I don't know Friday Friday is just a good day I wasn't really a I'm a dancer but I don't I don't know it wasn't really my you don't dance oh I do dance I've seen you try to dance that's not dancing okay trips to the left side empty back field only one safety for Salem Hicks Bley is looking deep middle of the field Hicks at the 20 caught brought down at the 10 they're going to call it down they're going to call it a catch oh how was that let's check the instant replay here Alex I don't think he maintained possession when he hit the ground ooh I don't know that could be a catch I think that should have been it cuz it looks like both of his arms were underneath the ball when he hit the ground and ground can't cause a fumble so so brings up a third and long now another beautiful ball by vagle puts it in a spot where only Logan can get it it's a tough one clock does stop though 44 seconds now you got third and long doubles to the left side bagely fakes a handoff throws it out wide this one's caught by Hicks gets up to the 50 back to the original line of scrimmage we'll see if Salem wants to call a timeout and they do now you punt it if you're the Eagles here don't want to give them the ball right at Midfield TJ let's go back to the year probably the 1990s I would assume you were in high school what was your favorite homecoming tradition um well when the the horse and buggy would take us to uh to prom you didn't have a Camaro or anything like that no I didn't have a Camaro Mustang was a whole new term back then exactly so your horse and buggy yeah you decorate your horse and buggy to go to school yeah we'd uh you know go down in the coold shoot and uh you know write obscene things on everybody else's buggies and uh yeah it was it was fun it was fun things are a lot different nowadays I'm telling you yeah now it's toilet paper did I don't know if you could have decorated with that back in the day no that was a delicacy you could get rid of that you had to go out to the ouse and and go get the toilet paper and yeah now you just go to your front yard I tell you it it is all over town this year has been insane Eagles are going to have fourth and 11 now from the Wildcat 48 yd line 30 seconds to go they are lined up in punt formation I think if you're Mason you don't even give your this guy a chance of returning it he's got some oh great punt by Mason caught at the 14 yd line good coverage though by the Eagles and it goes to about the 19 yd line where the tackle was made I think he could to pick this up with his feet think so yeah it's only yards he would had to outr run one guy number 16 I mean it would have been close but great rugby style punt there and if you're Salem here I I take a knee I don't want to force a stupid fumble or something and give them three free points basically looks like they are going to line up in just doubles though slinging deep I think you keep it on oh they are going to sling it BS down the middle of the field field check down to number 80 who makes the catch and gets taken out of Bounds at the [Music] 29 he might give him the 30 and it's going to be good for a first down if they do Hickson then up on the track somehow with seeing that they're going to Sling It Coach G pulls Mankey off goes for the quicker case musk up for the pass rush and with that Lincoln Corbin also comes off number 28 Cooper Fox goes on doubles again quarterback looking deep once again going to throw it and be caught taken down right away by Xavier vaguely though could have been a hold all over the place back here here on the line oh yeah yeah basically tackled him talks about how quick casing was and he got held all the way down to the ground tackled coach G's out here he's wanting to have an explanation what's going on herner out there as well it's going to be first and 10 from the 47 coach remain all the way out on the eagle think they're trying to figure out if the clock started or not head coach Kendall out there Corner looking up to the Press Box trying to get couple seconds off the clock yeah looks like it it's holding up 10 they added 10 seconds or oh now it says 10 yeah they added 10 instead of taking it away so first and 10 now trips to the right side running back right could be the last play of the first half quarterback looking up the middle throws it across the middle it's going to be caught quick whistle thankfully brought down at the 35 yd line 4 seconds to go on the game clock I'm assuming another Salem time out that'll be their last one and this will be the last play of the first half and here you don't want to let anybody behind you maybe throw an extra secondary guy in there just to be safe I would have three guys standing on about 10 or 15 yard line on this last play for halftime like we said we're going to have the bands performance first and then we will try having an interview with Mrs Herer and cheer coach Robbie Walters as it is Cheer night Junior cheer night 192 participants this year so we'll talk to Robbie about competition season that's always in the winter time very colored coach in tons of trophies in the trophy case been doing it a long time four seconds to go Eagles lead this first half 17-0 trying to improve to five- two which would make them eligible for playoffs Salem comes in at one and five trips to the right side running back left Eagles are showing four rushers they're going to bring three off the one side it's a screen play caught by number three Gets behind his blockers gets close to a first down still trying to dance around trying to reverse the sides of the field he's going to get brought down whole lot of running whole lot of nothing going on though and that takes us to halftime Eagles lead it 17 nothing we're going to run to a commercial break we come back we will have the bands performance right after this on kchs thanks to the Sons and Daughters of the American Legion for the awesome barbecue tonight Hur n a [Music] n [Music] he [Music] all God [Music] n [Music] this [Music] s [Applause] [Music] I need know where you this is [Music] us at the bottom of [Music] y [Music] w [Music] w [Applause] [Music] la [Music] Happ [Music] be [Music] [Applause] here's your e fight all [Applause] good job there by the marching Eagles at our halftime show we will be giving miss horer a phone call here now and see if we can get an interview with her real quick with how things are going to be going as a coach's wife we talked to Mrs Germaine a little while ago couple weeks ago I guess it was we're going to talk with Miss Herer now see if she she uh can get connected with her we're trying to make the phone call now got these fancy got the fancy uh headset Miss horer can you hear me Miss Horner can you hear me hi Alex how are you good how are you doing tonight hello Dr Beth Horner oh oh man I'm well thanks for joining us on kchs tonight Eagles are leading 17 nothing I know you're watching correct Beth are you there yes okay can you hear me yep now I can hear you okay so as a coach's wife take us back to let's go whenever coach was at Redbud and then you make the move to Columbia what was it like uh going from Red Bud getting the do you remember the emotions that went in whenever he was hired here at Columbia so um he still wor those bike shorts that coaches used to wear you know y one so he was a little frustrated there and then uh the opportunity came about for him to come to Colombia and I was already a teacher in Colombia at the time so it was great so you know he came here and then we kind of started our family here all right all right I wish I do you have any pictures of the bike shorts I might be able to dig some up because they were bad and I kept asking him why are you wearing these and that's all he knew from coach wheeler who is you know coach wheeler was everything to him right his high school coach all right so he comes to Columbia and uh he's started with Coach Germaine and we talked a little bit with Tara the uh relationship that you and Tara had back in the day and still have today what's it like when you have somebody I mean obviously a support system with you and Tara you're supporting each other with kids growing up and coaches and husbands and that what's it like having somebody on the side with you for 24 years well Tara and I just kind of know each other very well and we just we just know that we're single moms you know and we when we were raising little kids it um you know we really supported each other a lot and it's just you just know you're alone for a long time and even when they're home during the football season they're not home I mean Scott is not present when he's home yeah on a Saturday he's watching college football and he'll pop up a probably two times a weekend and go draw up some kind of little plays and um take them with them on Monday and he and G Talk Non-Stop and so Tara and I just kind of have this understanding that yeah this is our life and we support them and and uh at the end of the day it's all about the kids and so we want to see a Victory so do you still get nervous on Friday nights or do you get nervous at all on Friday nights when it rolls around the game nights so with the my boys being gone I don't get as nervous but when it's a big game and it you know like the rock Santa game that I feel like we probably could have won should have won um I don't know if nervous is the word but I get I you know I I I still emotional and so then if they make the L offs yes um you know you just see these guys and this is all they live for this is all they do and and the kids too they work I mean football is so grueling all summer all fall and so you just want the best for the kids as well so I don't know if nervous is the word but it's just this come on guys we got this right so let's talk about Nick and Sam whenever they were playing you know and you said you got nervous you being down on the sideline every week you had your your cow bell and you'll never forget the cow bell down there um what's it what's it like is it more fun watching the kids I would imagine than it is husband out there or is it just as fun kids husband everyone there oh my God much more fun with the kids um but I will tell you that you know now that Ella is in high school I know some of these kids Cooper Keegan Logan you know I know them through her and I know a lot of their family so it's super fun to watch them too because I know that they're going through what I experienced back in you know 2019 and so um I just I just think it's a great experience for everybody so what does coach Herer the girl dad like on a volleyball night is he pretty intense um well generally speaking he's pathetic with her because he would he lets her get away with anything and if it were the boys he would have been up their butts and and it would not going to happen um but Ella's got away with her father that um you know he yeah um so is he nervous with L I think he is but you know Scott is also not he doesn't show a lot of emotion you guys know him so um you know when things get rattled at a game then then you see it coming on I mean he was at modern day and he was trying to get the student section screaming so uh yeah he he just he's competitive as can be all right well thanks for joining us here we're getting ready for kickoff of the second half so uh thanks for joining us this week and uh we might talk again here in the near future you never know I might just randomly call you on a Friday night and we'll do a impromptu interview sounds good Alex take care you guys do a great job I appreciate you thanks Beth appreciate it bye thanks to Beth horer for coming on and joining us here on kchs we're getting ready ready to start the second half where the Eagles are leading the wild cats 17 nothing in another kokia conference game Columbia trying to stay in the hunt uh Jared do you have a score in that Central Roxana game it's good say right there I'm GNA look real quick if not we'll be sending a text down to Zack dy I bet you he could he probably got it in his head already Brie Central in the first quarter was up 80 226 in the second quarter three why are we kicking off at the 25 I don't know Columbia is going to be kicking off from the 25 they send it deep and it's going to fall in between the two return men at the 29 now Salem's going to have to try to make something happen I lost where the football even is and I'm going to assume it's tackled now just shy of the 40 what' you say the score was I was trying to figure out why we were kicking at the 25 226 in the second quarter Brie Central was Le Central yep so a victory by Central will set up hopefully if they hold on will set up a uh conference Championship Game pretty much next week when we go to town to Clinton County so Salem's going to start their own 39 yd line Eagles got the shutout going so far four down lineman three linebackers defensive backs are moving up running the right up the middle cam janick makes contact at the line of SC scrimmage forward progress gain of two Keegan just got drove back about 10 yards by big 77 there only a gain of about two second and eight Salem really doesn't have very wide splits they got all the linemen are real close to each other staying tight play action pass caught M tackled gain of 10 Miss tackle there by P in the long gain that's the only way they've been really getting yards all night as those three yard hitch routes not even three yards he takes one or two steps downfield turns around Ball's already coming at him missed tackle there by looked like Steel on that far side able to pick up first down for Salem into Eagle territory four down lineman two linebackers same formation for the Eagles defense running back on the right side quarterback's going to look down the middle of the field he's got number three who's intended receiver knocked down by Jace Nelson on the good defense much better Ball by that quarterback on that pass than the one in the first half that Mason picked off off great job by Nelson to be there in coverage knock it down that three is pretty quick too number three is lyri black leading receiver with 32 receptions 357 yards and doesn't do anything on the ground though two receivers out wide and the ball off at the middle of number 22 who's trying to have a little patience gains about three yards brings up a third down and seven they're missing one guy on their stat sheet here but they're starting offensive line number 51 6' 240 58 57 235 65 510 250 and 77 62 295 he looks a lot bigger than 62 out there single receivers out wide moving them over to doubles under 10 seconds on the play clock doubles to the right side quarterback snap makes it that was Cooper W right there definitely on a blitz quarterback was trying to do a little bootle turned around and Cooper white was already right in front of him brings up fourth down it's my birthday so fourth and seven looks like it's going to be four down territory now for the wild cats B the Eagles 46 yd line doubles got big 80 out here quarterback looking deep two guys for the Eagles in the back field quarterback scrambles throws it cross the middle picked off by Mason vagley is second of the night he gets up to the middle of the field keeps his feet moving spins around he's brought down at the 49 yd line and good field position for the Eagles offense now look like quarterback had a receiver looks like he had a receiver uh down the middle of the field but kind of overthrew it a little bit kind of over his head and Mason in the right spot again second interception on the night single receivers Keegan out wide two running backs fake it to one hand it off to Hicks goes up the middle to the original line of scrimmage nothing going there was a high and slow snap kind of threw the play off from the start look like janic lined up behind the Right Guard guard not on the tackle there couldn't get engaged once again and he's kind of like a kickout block there so Logan has to read him not able to cut it up field there motion man Nelson throw it out to him on a bubble he's going to have to make something happen nothing's going on though I lost a yard maybe two you know watching cam a couple times this year on his blocks I don't know if his shoulder still hurting him but rather than blocking with his hands and initiating contact he just kind of throws a shoulder out there and really doesn't even make a blockage it's almost like he just gets in the way yeah and then the guys that bounce off of his getting the way block are able to make the tackle third and 10 under nine minutes to go now empty backfield motion man's going to be Nelson fake it to him vaguely keeps it gets up maybe a gain of one fourth and nine I would imagine the Eagles punt here here coach Herer looks down at G he says Punt and I think that's what we're going to do nothing going for the Eagles as they all come walking off the field this time Mason going to be doing the punting around the 40 one yd line puts his heels on the 40 return man's at the 15 oh gosh he got hit he got hit great punt caught at the seven returnable good job there by I believe that's steel again keep saying his name tonight Cameron steel good job getting down field so there's either running into the kicker or roughing the kicker that looked like just running into the kicker so it should just be a five yard penalty good job there by Cameron sto steel getting off of his block and making the tackle Mason was able to get the kick off kind of just ran into him they say it's fourth down on the so it's our ball again right here this time the Eagles are going to go for it Cam's your quarterback trying to go out wide he fumbles it ball goes straight up in the air turnover on Downs see and that's I [Music] don't been killing them on the bubbles all night and you line up in this formation that you're used to inside five yard line but again there you look at the replay there's four guys in the back field from Salem nobody really did any blocking so two fumbles two different running backs tonight for the Eagles Jace had one in that first drive janic fumbles there Salem will get the ball at the 46 two receivers to the left two running backs One Man in Motion left to right going to be a handoff right up the middle nothing going looks like Corbin and and Bryant in on that tackle loss of one Eagles coming into the game plus seven on the giveaway takeaway stat sheet I think Mr Reeves is up here behind us wanting to do an interview maybe not okay I didn't think so I thought we'd ask a little impromptu here you go Jared wants to talk to you oh gosh what's up Mr re how's it going it's going all right what a great night tonight a lot of uh fans in here for homecoming week had the uh junior cheerleaders before yeah I don't know if you heard that they they had 192 kids attend the camp that is a lot of kids so tonight we had just about 150 out there on the field okay we recognized the homecoming Court too is uh right before the game had a lot of stuff before the game of course tomorrow night's the dance we'll have a coronation is there a theme what's the theme this year uh games one games okay grade levels third down now only a gain of about three there third and five we'll call it looks like they're going to line up trips to the right side single receiver to the left pistol back he going to hand it off right up the middle nothing going has to Bounce It Outside looks like Cooper W there on the tackle loss of about three going to bring up fourth down coach coach G's got that defense playing pretty strong tonight yeah I don't know if you saw I mean you were there last week weren't you that about 12-minute drive in that second quarter so yeah had to make some adjustments at halftime especially this week one of the longest drives I've seen I think I think we said that on the broadcast last week too at any level correct would be nice if they can get a keep it as a shut out tonight yep get away with a nice win no injuries fourth down looks like the punt team is out Nelson standing on the 20 waiting for this one punt is away it's going to bounce around the 25 and down at the 28 we'll call it Eagles offense coming back out Alex you got any questions for Mr Reeves so Mr Reeves with homecoming week this this week how'd the uh festivities go today was the uh no school today yesterday was the uh home homecoming games yeah went great how did it all go went great students are excited throughout it it's uh it's a crazy day but it's a a fun day who who gets a spirit stick this year seniors yeah seniors yeah happens every year somehow well I guess a couple years back Juniors took it but uh was that your Year Jared no that was after you after you Jason Nelson on a great run to the left side gets it from the 28 up to the 50 good for 22 yards so this year's theme what is the theme um I believe it's game days right right game days yep so we had some uh so Uno was the Freshman Juniors was a freeze out or ice out or oh I don't break the ice oh don't break the ice yeah I think that's um oh Wednesday night we had the parade and we had more of a turnout Wednesday night than or at the parade than we have in the last couple years it was fantastic we had over 35 floats participate recognize some retiring teachers retiring staff members it was a great showing like I said more than we've had last couple years so it was it was great to see it another run there by the Eagles number two Logan Hicks good for 24 yards what's your favorite part of homecoming do you have one do you like the craziness do you like the everyday sometimes my favorite part is when it's over Monday morning when it the next week Saturday night we got the dance over and uh and everything went well it's a a lot of pressure on the student council and our sponsor and we want the week to go perfect and this this has been a pretty successful week I'm really happy with it so we have the dance tomorrow night boy it's uh going to have a lot of people dressed up looking fantastic and a great time dancing so it is it is a great week the craziness is fun but a week is long enough all right well here we go we got the Eagles here at the 15 with just over four minutes to go here in the third quarter hopefully we'll get in the end zone here with Mr Reeves on air yeah going to be a handoff nothing going high snap I don't know if there's really much blocking going on late penalty flag gets thrown in look at the catching on real quick here he watches lot of football it's a great view up here you can see it all well anytime you want to come up and join us up here we'll uh we'll make a seat we got an extra headset for you now too so the third quarter with the principal there you go perfect how many years have you been principal now at Columbia uh I've been a principal in the district for 20 years uh I was at the middle school or was at the high school as an assistant for seven at the middle school as the principal for five and then is my eth year uh back up at the high school school so it's it's it's been a while 20 years it's hard to believe Eagles are going to have first down and four we'll call it two running backs fake it to Jace hand the ball off to Hicks he gets up to about the three yd line going to be good for first and goal been here long enough for three of you in this room to be yeah be students so we talk about the parade that happened on Wednesday night you had 30 something floats you said yeah over over 35 floats yes 35 floats so that's got to be one of the biggest ones for homecoming wise that I can remember but it was always fun whenever the classes each got to decorate the float the way they wanted to you get to honor homecoming court and like you said some of the uh the retiring teachers how many do you have in the district or is it in the school how did they do that it's in the whole District we have we had four uh Mr gagan's retiring Miss faren at the Middle School Miss Klein at the middle school and Miss FY at the middle school so three uh three Middle School teachers and one high school and it's good that we get to honor them and uh it's always cool getting to watch the parade and you get to see those teachers that you had I mean I had all of those teachers and getting to see that they're getting to retire uh is always fun here second and three second goal from the three could have I think that RPO there could have almost been a handoff in for a touchdown but instead goes incomplete so C's going to be your sniffer back he's in between the guard and Tackle to the right side Jace is your running back handed off up the middle untouched into the end zone for Columbia Eagles touchdown nice run nice run so that takes the Corey Pharmacy scoreboard Columbia 23 Salem zero and there's a smoke machine going off there we go pretty fancy lot of new additions this year I like the spicing up the the show I like it oh I thanks for having me up I'm going to go ahead and run you got to get down and get to work huh all right well thanks for joining us Mr Reeves we'll uh we'll see you in a couple weeks on senior night you bet thank you all right Keegan on for the pat good snap good hold kick is up pushed it to the right but sneaks it in for another successful Pat out to Keegan and that takes the score 24-0 we're going to run to a break show you our sponsors and when we come back we'll have the Eagles defense before the fourth quarter starts right after this [Music] welcome back to kchs 24-0 315 remaining in the third quarter good drive there for the Eagles from start to finish yeah Jason Nelson able to get in the end zone there still three possession game Keegan Thompson getting ready to send this one deep Gotta Love Mr Rees don't you great guy boy that far official that's the second off Sid or fall start whatever you want to call it he's called tonight haven't seen that all year just when you start to get a little bit of a flow a little bit of a feel going and that happens the Corbin's grandparents are listening from Cincinnati and Miss Harris as always coming to you from Tennessee nowadays so thank you for everybody for watching Once Again Eagles lead this homecoming game 24-0 trying to become eligible for the playoffs SRO mcorder over here with the student section giving somebody some trouble Breeze Central now leads it 28-6 in the third quarter Eagles send it deep going to be caught at the 13 yd line up the middle they go going to be nothing going once he hits the 25 though a swarm of eagles making the tackle led by number 72 Dylan Robinson and I believe it's going to be number 21 coming off the pile at the end Ethan Hill see if we can keep this goose egg up on the board like number 80 is a little shaken up the big tight end don't forget if you're looking for something to do in a couple weeks the veterans parade by the sons of the American Legion and their honor Q $30 tickets for the dance we just watched the replay number 80 might be seeing Stars a little bit he got hit pretty good I don't know who gets him oh he hit his head on the ground too I think that's what I think it's going to be musk up that makes contact with him as a hard hit might be seeing Stars that's never fun you ever saw Stars after a hit I'm sure I did I don't remember yeah that's that's probably part of that that that's concussion protocol if I've ever heard of it yeah maybe that's why my memory is so bad what my fiance my teller it's because of football just play it on football nowadays the Eagles have helmet sensors so when they do hit their head uh the trainer has a little remote in her pocket it'll vibrate make a noise and make a flash noise or a flash light go off so she knows if there uh contact is too hard on the head because it's not the uh first hit that's dangerous it's the ones thereafter run up the middle Hudson Bryant right there right away gain of one second and nine Brian on that edge is he's been he's been a problem for for some offensive lines because they can't get to him in time he's so quick off the ball on the right side there he's goes untouched number 18 was supposed to block him and kick him out but Brian already in the back field we've talked about it before you look at our two I'm going to call them a tackle if Mankey uh Corbin I think now they got John do out there those guys clogging up the middle and then Janik and Hudson on the outside Blitzen backers good mix pass to the left side just that quick one yard Route turns into a 20 30 35 turns into a touchdown for the Wildcats I knew they were going to break one at some point with those little five yard let's see if it was even five yards nope about a two- yard hitch route takes it to the house so let's call it a two-yard Route 71 yards after the catch and contact they made contact with him right away I mean if they're going to do that I almost like going up and moving into a press coverage type not letting them get off the ball if they're not even going to run five yards down field well that was a little bit of a killer there right as I talk about the goose egg too man got the broadcaster curse so Salem's going to come out they're going to go for two under Center to throw a little jump pass and it's going to be caught number three in the corner of the end zone it's good takes the Cory Pharmacy scoreboard Columbia 24 Salem eight and that was just there like I said two yard Route Jared you you called it all night I know I just I don't know why we're playing so far off the ball we've said that for six weeks now I know cuz even whenever you see things on our side of things on the our offensive side um when they don't have a linebacker or anything guarding a slot receiver that's why those bubbles worked in the whole first half because nobody's out there it's two on one the whole time we'd like to wish good luck to the other fall Sports going on right now uh playoffs will be coming up here soon for regionals I guess you'd call it for soccer volleyball uh golf I believe they've already gone to sectionals I believe we have a golfer I'm going to try to find out a name real quick I believe he's going to State as a team we qualified for sectionals but did not advance but will be [Music] heading one individual I believe Kyle chud finished fifth place I believe chud was on homecoming court tonight too yep he finished in fifth place at sectionals and is advancing to State on October 19th is that even it's coming up it's next week Salem sends it deep goes out of Bounds at about the 32 yd line boys finished in eighth at sectionals to finish with an outstanding season volleyball they um pairings just came out see if we can pull those up real quick their subsectional is absolutely loaded with Columbia Breeze Central Breeze modern day Nashville got some Powerhouse volleyball right there mhm two possession game now Salem right back in this one so hopefully Columbia offense can try to get in the end zone here again doubles to the right side turn around hand the ball off to Nelson up the middle good strong run gain of nine second and one now second and one 150 left now in this third quarter after that Salem 71 yd touchdown to make it 24 to8 doubles to the right side and the ball off up the middle first down and then some 40 yd line get going Logan Hicks to the 30 2520 race to the Pilon 105 pylon inzone touchdown Eagles 50 5 yd run Logan Hicks breaks through the line shows off the Speed gone that's kind of what happened earlier he tried cutting it back earlier if he would have just kept out running the guys great job Logan Hicks the old lineman he used to be a lineman can you believe that from wide receiver to Center to running back kind of wide receiver kind of he's done at all good snap Place kick good man if you're if you're Salem you're thinking score that quick and you're right back in the game and then all it takes is about a minute and a half to extend that lead even more I believe now if you throw the field goal in and three Pats for I guess it'd be four Pats for Keegan he's 20 Pats and the three uh three field goals catch that one too I don't know I just saw him give the pie that's awesome that is awesome I love the smile that dude is always smiling yep he comes and visits me in the afternoon gets off his bike he's got a smile on his face right away I think he's yelling at me before he even comes through the door too 23-point lead now for Columbia after Logan Hicks touched down before that Salem scored on a 71 y down that left sideline to make it a two- possession game but Columbia scores quick to bring it back up to a three possession game Keegan sends this one deep high and deep caught at the nine yd line up the middle Salem goes this time finds a void Eagles are going to bring him down at the 36 is Aaron P probably the longest return on all night I don't think they've got past the 30 so Salem gets the ball minute 25 both teams have all three timeouts Eagles lead the Kia conference matchup 31 to8 Central looking like they're going to improve to seven and0 with a victory over Roxana doubles to the left side sniffer back right pistol back running back quarterback takes a hand off hands it off to him nothing going brought down KAS musk loss of one on the play trying to find some other scorers CBC beats viani 63-3 ooo altof leads mod day at halftime 33 nothing that's closer than I thought it was going to be second and 11 clock ticking e St Louis leads Alton 41 nothing at halftime doubles to the left side sniffer back left running back to the right quarterback looks left double move looking deep got a man over there and it's going to be caught at about the 32 two missed tackles 25 now there's more Eagles getting down there big catch from the 35 to the 17 yd line couple arm tackles there x with one of them Keegan Thompson comes out of nowhere puts the boom on kid was a little shaken up after that one but pop right back up first and 10 from the 17 22nd to go in the third quarter quarterback hands the ball off to number 18 up the middle tries to bust it to the outside nothing going brought down on the play by number two Logan Hicks that should bring it to the quarter with just under five minutes or five seconds now loss of two brings up a second and 12 whenever we return with the fourth quarter right here on kchs we'll be back after this a [Music] n [Music] we return to kchs it's all Eagles tonight 31 to8 talking about volleyball the volleyball team gets the number two seed and I guess it's considered their subsectional I don't really know how it all works anymore but they will get the winner of red bud and Chester and Nashville is the three seed if you look at R sectional I guess we'll call it that ston the one Columbia 2 Nashville three Hillsboro four those four teams all get a buy double tight for Salem motion man number three fake it to him up the middle they go with number two muskot making a tackle again gain a one Alto and Roxanna will play each other the winner of that will face Nashville Columbia is the host of their Regional so it could set up if all the top seeds win a two seed Columbia three seed Nashville in a Regional Championship on Thursday the 31st at 6 p.m. Little Tommy trumpet or something Timmy trumpet is that what this is I don't know but at the missou game that was crazy trips to the right side single receiver out wide quarterback rolling out to the right side he's got number 10 he's looking through his options going to be caught I believe gain of four four fourth down and seven quarterback had number 10 right away it's where he ended up going with it in the end but ran through his progressions good little play there out of the quarterback showing patience and knowing that he had that guy right there good defense by The Eagles downfield too X had the middle receiver Mason went to the end zone with the Deep receiver and I guess that would be pool over on that side sticking with the short oh that would be Nelson over there flip the formation trips to the left side ball on the right hash fourth and seven quarterback's looking left pressure muskot forces him to throw it got to make an open field tackle and we do once again turnover on Downs Eagles football Cooper W in the right spot again just able to pitter patter his feet make a good tackle had about three four there with him before he could get to that first down marker Eagles Take the ball back with 1025 doubles to the right side into the boundary bigley takes a snap hands the ball off up the middle it's Nelson who gets slung from behind and tackled but it's going to be good for 11 yards first and 10 Jace is just a little bit too fast for quivero quivero is pulling but Jace just runs by him Mason slowing things down now 20 seconds on the play clock hopefully he's running this one under 10 now same formation same play once again Jace up the middle good for 15 yards this time where he's brought down we're joined at the 25 yard line with Brenan W Brenan thanks for joining us again on the field Alex thank you sir for having me homecoming night here tonight it's all Eagles 318 tell me what you've seen on the field tonight and what you've watched on the Eagles offense to get in the points on the board uh offensively they're taking care of business I mean Logan Hicks and Jay Nelson doing a great job I mean they're just they're dominating they're running up the field they can't be touched um just comes down to execution now just got to keep the ball on the ground don't make stupid mistakes High snap brought down by vagle handed off to Jace once again good for another nine we'll call it second and one some play like that right there that snap is two foot fo High compared to normal it can throw a playoff though from the start right away absolutely I mean 9 minutes I mean that's not a lot of time but that's enough time and I mean you gota you have to run that clock out as much as you can uh secure a good win for homecoming night have a have a better night tomorrow night you know I mean you gotta go into the weekend happy what was your favorite homecoming tradition oh that's a tough question football I mean you can't beat Jace up the middle good for first down in the Wildcat territory keeps his feet moving to the 20 where he gets knocked out of bounds big run about 30 35 yards first and 10 for the Eagles are you a big dancer on Saturday night uh h no no not at all Saturday night Friday night doesn't matter oh you're too sh Friday nights oh I dance on Friday nights every day oh okay all the time I thought you just said you're too shy I was like how can you be C's brother and be shy too much adrenaline going through you on a Friday night oh okay shy Saturday night homecoming night though I mean I not that's not my thing but you know I I think uh I think just the whole atmosphere I mean you have Spirit weak you get all the the costume stuff like that bagle keeps it himself this time gets behind Keegan it's going to get in for an Eagles touchdown but a penalty flag on the Play Holding is initial indication Brandon let's talk defense real quick we've only given up eight points it was on one big play when you look at the defensive backs I know you're a linebacker when you look at the defensive backs and how deep they play what are your thoughts behind it uh you hear our thoughts what's yours uh I think it's just about letting a big play it's just like uh just like the one that scores a touchdown and then you got a big pass play that nearly gets a touchdown but luckily it stopped um it's just you just got to be smart you gota you gotta keep it close and you just don't make big mistakes don't don't let up big plays such as that Eagles lost of 10 on the play doubles to their right side first down and 20 this time going to hand the ball off to Jace up the middle gets behind his blockers keeps his feet moving gain of about seven second and 13 all right Brennan we uh thank you for joining us once again we might we might run it down to you as a post game real quick we'll talk to you in a couple minutes all righty we'll see you second and 13 thanks to Brennan W for uh the replay monitor up here for us tonight and joining us down on the field doubles of the right side sniffer back right under eight minutes to go now vley pass play he's going to look across the field he's got Hicks throws it over to the corner of the end zone and it's going to fall incomplete had a man maybe a little bit better of the ball Hicks would have had it but it falls incomplete it's not picked off live to see another down looks like Hicks just ran like a post route almost kind of drug it all the way out Mason just kind of overthrows it clock stops at 7:47 will be third and long for Columbia game just really started to drag now all of a sudden yep I mean the fans haven't been into it student section sitting down doubles to the right side same formation Bley takes the snap hands it off loss on the play believe that's Corbin got beat on that one just got his face cross there and he got beat in the right spot just not quick enough good to see Brody furo I just noticed he's back in at center after an injury last week so uh nice to see that got your starting center back looks like we're going to let this run to the end of the play clock be under seven minutes to go on the game clock coach Warner is going to burn timeout be about a 42 yard kick what was vag's kick a couple years ago that was in the 40s yeah like 42 43 something like that set him out there give him a shot it's the worst that happens you miss it did you ever kick field goals no I kicked one time I never told you this during a game yeah it was my freshman year JV game coach bidlack come up to me goes slam we need a kicker for freshman I said I I don't know how to kick I can't do that he goes it's easy you run up you kick it how hard can this be so I kicked off and uh they made the tackle probably after I kicked the ball about six yards and longer the kicker I picked the tea up about 12 yards I kick the te farther in the ball I come running off and Coach PC goes yeah you're right you can't kick hey tried to tried to tell you just don't want to listen to me yeah I'm not anything with my feet who's the best kicker you've seen in like oh man Columbia history you think he asked me about kickers kickers aren't athletes kickers are people too man oh man come on gosh I don't I probably couldn't name you seven kickers in Columbia history really yeah trips to the left side running back left I like trying to show some trying to show some love for the kickers out here man Nelson's a single receiver to his right side I like this matchup going to be a roll to the left side three receivers over there vaguely throws it to the middle of the field it's caught by Hicks first and goal for the Eagles good job there by Logan finding an opening sitting down and it's a first down I mean if if I got to think about some kickers let me see if I can just name seven we're going to go Justin Anders because he was mine you Sam Greg [Music] Long uh I think Andrew doset was in there that's five Eric Frederick go way back in the day um well I mean I guess we can call Keegan now so maybe I can there you go who's the best one I they all rank the same doubles to the right side turn around hand the ball off Nelson up the middle untouched into the end zone touchdown Eagles Cory Pharmacy scoreboard with 631 remaining Columbia 37 Salem 8 who's your top it's between Greg and Sam for me Greg was Greg was pretty automatic but he I feel like Greg just had a bigger leg Sam was probably more accurate you think so yep kick is up and it is good number three's been on that edge trying to block it almost all night long brings it 38-8 with 631 left in this ball game he's there every every time so Eagles lead by 30 homecoming week how many push-ups cheerleaders up to now so we went up seven nothing then it went to se to 10 so there's 17 then we scored a touchdown right yep right 17 plus 24 well no then they did another 17 so that would be 34 so then they went to 24 we went 24 nothing right yep yep 24 then 24 to eight so then it went to 31 after that I have no idea I don't know why I'm I'm struggling usually I figure this up pretty quick yeah Cunningham to do the kicking this time kicking left to right from the 40 sends it deep going to be returnable from the 20 yd line where it's fumbled going to have to pick it up nothing going good job there Cas Muska gets brought down Adam whm too another kicker out there 62 25 left now Salem going to take over looks like a couple Subs coming in Aaron pool checking in Hub checking in looks like number 70 Malachi betet also 57 in the game John do if my math is correct 127 push-ups for the cheerleaders tonight Giver takes a few yeah TJ you get to call this uh this drive here you do not want me doing this while running the camera too I can't look and see some guy runs the ball and three or four guys tackling and you're muted back to you Alex yeah and mute brought down on the play Cam janic and hubard making the tackle after a gain of four when we goingon to have Josh on here at some point that's one thing we don't want second and six from the Salem [Music] 39 doubles to the right side sniffer back right single receiver fake it to him bootleg caught by number 18 Keegan making a Chase going to make the attempt and it's going to be brought down Aaron P good job chasing the play down and making the tackle at the 31 big gain though about a 40 yard gain there doubl to the left side running back left sniffer back left quarterback looking left looking into the end zone flings it up no one in the area Falls incomplete second and 10 good job there by the Eagles defense still no I was looking for an update on that uh Central score but still says 286 in the third that was 40 minutes ago as always listening up at Aces Wild tonight have all the games on every week if you're uh on a road game need to listen head on up especially next week if you're not able to make the trip to Bree Central shaping up to be probably the biggest game of the year so far doubles the left side under Center quarterback hands the ball off up the middle number 22 good powerful run gain of eight third and two [Music] now approaching five minutes left in the ball game most the starters are out on the defensive side now quarterback turns around hands it off to number 18 nothing going fumble on the play looks like 28 was the one force it Cooper Fox was in the back field for the Eagles before I think the running back even had the ball loss of four good job there by Cooper getting back there Salem was able to recover fumble fourth and five Eagles trying to keep that eight on the board doubles to the left side two running backs quarterback just throws a now outout to number three and it falls incomplete and I'm glad that it did because I believe that was pool was a safety trying to guard him and he was 10 yards deep it's kind of been story of the night on defense that's all they've really P wasn't even in the picture beat us on but Eagles take over with 411 looks like X is going to take over for his brother at the quarterback position empty backfield single receivers out X looking to the right motion man number 10 for the Eagles fake it to him up the Middle with X puts his foot in the ground running pretty high he's going to learn at the varsity level you better get those shoulder pads down unless he's going to get cut in half number 10 there Max Jer was the motion man oh X going to give it to you oh play on words there I like that c Dre and Matt vagley are in charge of Music Cole probably has no idea what that song even is it's not slip knot or corn or something like that he has no idea X has a running back believe that's number 24 going to turn around hand the ball off to him up the middle I believe that'sall Jackson lawall gain of eight first and 10 for the Eagles good to see two freshman back there getting some reps at Varsity ball it's the future of Columbia backfield right there here in a couple years 315 and Counting now in this week seven matchup can't believe week Seven's already almost over Alex quick one motion man number 10 going out wide for the Eagles is Dre this time going to be vaguely just keeping himself gets to the original line of scrimmage maybe a gain of one second nine don't forget next week the Eagles travel to Clinton County to take on the central cougars who will go into that game s and0 Conference Championship on the line there if Central wins they will be the outright Champion if Columbia is able to win I believe it'll be a three-way tie and I have no idea who the representative would be for postseason reasoning the conference Champion gets an automatic bid into the postseason trips to the left side empty backfield vaguely by himself SS Jackson In Motion hands the ball off out wide he puts his foot in the ground gets up field look at the speed out to Jackson leall he's tripping himself up keeps himself moving though slung down at the Salem 39 nope 34 great run there good for about 20 yards great burst of speed once he hit that secondary and then able to break a tackle or two that may be able to do it now get into the victory formation here [Music] soon doubles to the right side ball in the right hash turns around hands the ball off to lall nothing going that time late penalty flag looks like a they're going to call a hold Jake vulmer is the eagle that's over there holding is the call L of 10 first down I can't believe we're not just taking Victory right here yeah under 120 left now it looks like that's what we're switching into you we got to snap it about two or three times here and Eagles are going to end up having to burn a timeout to make sure that Victory is set up right able to figure it out it's the greatest formation in football when you can get in a victory formation going to have to run one more play once it gets under 40 seconds we can snap it so the Eagles are going to improve five- two on the season makes them playoff eligible now it comes down to if we can get one more Victory we lock ourselves in if we cannot then it comes down to playoff points so hopefully the Eagles are able to get a victory next week even against Central in locked themselves in Conference Championship it's all going to be a fun one next week Jared your thoughts on tonight's game um I was a little nervous there in the beginning having that fumble but once we got that ball back and Coach horer got in a rhythm uh running those bubble routes and just getting his Playmakers an open space and letting them uh do what their best at and make plays um I think overall that's what we're going to have to do a lot more moving forward uh just get it in hicks's hands as much as possible Nelson Keegan uh maybe even get Cooper W in there um a little bit get let him touch the ball um janic as well so it's nice to see spreading the ball around a little bit um and when you're quarterback doesn't have to run as much as we've seen throughout the season I bet he only had four or five carries and I that would be my guess so um and it's also good to come out of here with uh no injuries no injuries get to go in dance the night away with homecoming and uh dance away with a 38 to8 Victory thanks again to for uh watching for listening tuning in we'll do it again in next week for Josh rushing TJ white Jared Germaine Jared happy 25th birthday bud thank you sir we'll see you next week 6:30 pregame show from Breeze Eagles win go Eagles baby MO [Music] n [Music]

at Cafe on the Abbey walks down Main Street and finishes at the American Legion and then there's a big barbecue competition after that with daed in confused playing in the afternoon in an adult kickball tournament starting at 11: a.m.

Monday Tuesday and Thursday the following teachers have expressed an interest in touring after school from the high school we have Ria Fernandez l g warlo espa Dessa Mano elementary teachers Donette Williams Queen deloma Alona lria Lon cesno Corel abello an Abella Gia Espirito Gan Le bagarus and for J uh orlo espa Espiritu Alona lria Christine Daton charine Batista Nick elito Ron cesno and queen de Roma and Mr Casey any discussion is this because of umark uh Mr K Miss Olsen um this is for for a number of reasons just to be more proactive and to get students ready in advance of all the different assessments but um all have going kind of give a little bit more detail to Yes um every year we provide after school tutorials right and this year we're adding one more um program which is the k um support and the Jr support will be during the day and yes it will proactively provide the support that student needs students need and um for move on and reading for primary and provide gear two and Geer three support for upper grades grades grades three and up should be based on their Benchmark results whatever they have I thought we' already approved something like this that was intercession yeah inter inter questions comments next one okay approval of prek tuition increase the prek funding source first things first grant is reducing the number of students funded from 13 to 6 a break down the cost for student of the funding per student is below Administration is requesting increasing the monthly tuition from $275 to either option one $325 or option two $475 per month per request the last increase or PR pay was in May 2016 from2 200 to $275 cost per month was $500 in 2016 agenda item and backup for May 2016 meetings are attached in consultation with Consultants this recommended tuition increases to help cover the cost of inflation which is almost a 24% increase since 2016 seven possible families will be paying tuition prek is not funded by the state formula ADM Grant and tuition-based funding supports the program otherwise all supplemental funding comes from M if the prek student has an IEP there is some State funding to support that students's cost of services not tuition so remind me again of the cost of the school if you don't improve a tuition increase U Mr K Mr Guri um I know we have we have that chart that we could look at Miss can pull it up and and we've had since since the last time we talked about this we've had several several families that joined and then paying tuition since then but more or less if no but there's no kind of increase and it should pull up the chart right now um I want to say between 30 to 35,000 more or less it might be a little bit more or Le less as far as for what the district would have to cover is it the purple I broke it down it should be the purple yeah this one so this one right here is it no it's on the bottom so this is if we do not increase that's the district's yearly cost and then that's per and then this is 50 and then it doesn't go down that much but it goes down and then um if it's 475 this is the district cly cost this is what the district is paying out of the budget and we're just Bing it on on the number of students we have right now you know Mrs C has shared with us there maybe one or two join us in the near future next month but we want to just to uh you know her past experiences and best practices for Our advice of Mr Moore this is just based on the students we have right now so that gives us a pretty good idea and um you can see where it was last year and so we just want to try and um try and bring that cost down so remind me what a family's paying now per kid 275 275 and what would this go up to you that's [Music] 327 Mrs C is also here in case you have any questions for her she should be glad to answer any questions did you miss m did you we approved last month the uh the letter to send out to businesses did you get any response from that I think we got one one donation um on top of that Miss Ginger and I um put together a grant request for fre report so there was a Min grant that we submitted in September and there's another one for this month but we haven't heard anything so $30,000 is what are the cost is will we get for tuition increase just is for clarification not 26 30,000 um it comes from your District operational budget so it takes away from opportunity that you can do with salares Etc so it's just it's um you know a cost to the district to support this supplement this program pretty much and that's fine if the district Cho to move that way just just know that's less money back into the to the maintenance and operations bucket that your actual students your stay funded students are are not getting but you just cut our wages I think that's already been done so what's the percentage of our on be covering how much out of that this percentage wise mean percentage wise so it's mincle but yeah I to get back that's so what do you think you think a lot of parents will pull their kids out of preschool get jacked up what what have they been telling you we haven't really touched that bed with that one on their decision but I hope they won't pull out their children um but um after um August Bo meeting when was published in the newspaper we had three more involvements and the last three were also paying tuition and they were made aware of the positive that might increase so despite that they still put their children progr we have three more com right yes tuition my my thoughts on this are people already enough of inflation and educating your kids a major major thing um I personally don't have a problem with the district needs to absorb any funds to help these parents out to whatever availability is to help cover some of these costs I mean it's hard enough I mean we're we're a government organization here why don't we provide to our taxpayers and our families here that's my thoughts our responsibility education for kids and I understand the science that these kids go preschool they do better right or don't they do they do better asking you I don't have a research of back B on our so if we can look childhood education is it is we know it's just base on our I will give information from my child who went to prek with this fantastic teacher here and those before her and it made an immense difference in her educational career I don't think she would be where she's at without the time she had pre so I think it's important that opportunity for these students to be in prek without the added burden of where am I going to get this money to pay for this I want my kid to have a good education a good foundation I personally don't have an issue with the district picking up some of that so next year is there going to be another increase well that uh Mr K Mr Guffy that's something that we would bring back and and the board would decide we can always bring this is coming from administ ation Administration is one and two and three if you look at Mr Mar and so we're just we want to be transparent with you and show you what what it is cantly we agree with you wholeheartedly what you're saying I mean I'm I'm a product of Early Childhood uh in my career as well I started off teaching U prek bilingual Kinder bilingual first grade and I agree absolutely with what you're stating at the same time we wanted to show you the the numbers of what's involved and we would you know whatever your decision is on Wednesday at the vote we would come back again at the end of the year we can we can give you this update and bring it to you again at the start of next year before the end of the year the decision will be yours grandfather and the kids are already in the program that's how I would encourage yeah be a grandfathered approach you would you wouldn't put it families who already in the program be new families um and then to get it's about 1% 1% of your budget your operations budget is is being allocated currently to the the pr and we don't know what first things first is going to fund for next year like last year we had 18 15 15 and then they cut us down to six state to get away with all of Early Education had start everything so at that we don't know what person GNA it's going to it's based on the tobacco tax or sales tax toac smoking it'd be one thing if we were in the city and there are other options for families we're very limited on that here so back to this grandfathering idea is that for students currently enrolled and currently going or enrolled getting ready to start because we have three that are getting ready to start right so does that apply to those three speaking out I think whatever increase you do would be with the next school year and so whatever involement you get throughout the of this year would be grandfather day and then anybody starting has July next year that's how I would do again it's to board that's an approach that common Comm use everybody's aware the increase that increas is out there and then too bad that you're not a terrible teacher nobody would be in your program so this 2425 would actually we would change that to 2526 that to start next four year is that we are currently in so it's July right so the next school year is that what we're going to be voting on no we're from my understanding the board is voting on whether to do any kind of increase that would go into effect January of 2025 from January to June January to may there's some kind of decrease in what that deficit is right now so so those numbers up there are based on if you decide to let it remain at 275 for the rest of this year 1% would have to be absorbed to the ml budget per Mr Mar when he just stated if you decide to do a $50 increase be little less than 1% that would have to be absorb maybe 0.98 so these are for this year and so this would be applicable to students starting in January so they'll starting next month would still pay the 275 I I think if I understand maybe I'm if I understand this for anyone paying tuition right now their tuition go up at 3:25 in January so everybody so there's no kind of that granding not this year on how we started this conversation in AUST my question so it went from 13 to six of the grants did that already take effect or is that going to be for the 25 26 already takes we have seven kids right now that the parents are being out of pocket yes yes sir I do not want to raise that tuition on them during this school year I personally don't I mean if we have enough an on and M to cover that for this year I think I think we should you guys make the decision that's my thoughts you you know because whether it's $50 it's the $200 the motion I mean I know we're not making a motion right now but just so we know what the motion is going to be ONN we some well if it I'm just just saying if it were me making the motion I would make the motion that we maintain the current tuition rate with the district absorbing the difference for the remainder of this school year and you would or would not include the kids that are enrolling any any kid this year that's enrolling for this school year would to be the the 275 it would remain the same and we depending what first things first does next year then we could look at this again but I'm not comfortable with raising the tuition on these families in the middle year here now so then there's a question about the donation that was made so then if we're going to absorb the cost the donation that was made to be earmarked for this would that have to be returned because now the district is whatever cover the district first things first so it's the Tak have to for I 100 so if if if the decision by the board Wednesday is to not make any increase that number is going to be 26326 um Mr gy your question earlier if any of the I mentioned something I'm now recalling that I do have one family who mentioned that if it went up to 475 they it might be hard for them to send their kid to school and I do have two students who are siblings and they're both tuition based so times two and I'm I'm just speaking out to say that if I had a child in prek and this was happening I would be okay with doing the uh 325 because I would I would be able I budget for it you know if if the if their children's education is important to them I do think that they should be able to budget for that specifically so I personally think that the 325 is not out of range but that's that's just me what is it it's 275 right now 50e yeah a $50 increase or and the other options a $200 increase we took out the $600 that's not on we're just focusing on on 325 so when when I write a motion that comes out of my head you guys can change that you make it whatever it is you have to go I just don't want to have this conversation get it all done right now well I'm going to be very clear I'm going to ask for a motion to just maintain our current monthly fees and have the district absorb the rest for the remainder of the school year I don't think I'm give $50 that's that's my thing I'm okay with the $50 increase because again it would be important to me to have my child be educated so for me if it's important for these families then they'll find that they'll be able to budget those that $50 so they don't go to Circle K or you know something small like that you know they'll be they should be able to budget the $50 I get exactly what you're saying um I just think it might make it difficult for some of these families to do that right in the middle of school year be Proposal with a grandfather new families that way you start the trend of moving that direction they're not preschool forever the new iteration but at least you can start working towards that deficit but not punish the that are currently in the program so so basically it would be whoever's enrolled now and then in January whoever get starts sem or mid semester that they would start at the new rate work that language not punish the fam that there but then at least advertise that the new rates going forward are going to be yeah Mr K members of the board just this take direct me from the guidelines State you can go up to 20 students is that right um the space of the classroom can accommodate 18 to 20 so so she's at 15 now and she goes up to 18 November and you and you follow this this uh addendum from Mr Moore so in January two any two students who come in would pay the tuition if I understand correctly saying so two students instead of the two plus the three of November the five plus the seven that are currently pay tuition is that right we have an eight currently six under scholarship okay so that that's just so we all on the same page so my grandson's in there on the scholarship I think I push that in out there just so so if you guys think I recluse myself from the vot I will but he's in there scholarship they not paying not paying dation I think you if if they were paying tuition you should probably you're a scholarship should matter as far as the vot goes so tell me what the motion is going to be so the motion I would like to make tomorrow is any students currently enrolled they're grandfathered in any new incoming students would be at whatever the higher rate we decide to go now would be the 325 or which I am more comfortable with 325 over 47 I'm not comfortable with 475 person and then if we get add into the motion when the would come come in yeah approval January well you still get kids mid semester in so just we just need to make them aware hey these other students are tuition is lower since you're new you're going to be at the higher rate now yeah so basically effective the day we approve whatever we want to do that's the motion I plan Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday okay okay any other discussion or questions then we'll move on to the first reading of board policy review 801 most of the following policy advisor are updated to align with language and statute and Arizona code policy vaa and IGA remove language that was 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Arizona Board of Education updated r s-2 d811 on seizure Management training this rle clarifies the application of SB 1654 regarding implementation of correct timelines for school compliance required maintenance of proof of completed training and appropriate publication of applicable resources and that concludes first reading Mr uh Mr President clerk M of thank you Dr I appreciate that yes sir have any questions comments if not we'll move on to the report on the jotc request Dr a presentation and findings about the JROTC program yes Mr President CL members of the board um I have some information to share with you uh on September 30th I uh first I passed around to different different districts I looked in Sunnyside um uh was able to contact the superintendent rugo from R Rico in Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District long story short the best feedback I received was from uh um principal sesad Manda at choya High School in tucon Unified School District we worked together inis unified he directed me to a major spce of the army jrc at Troya High School major spe shared with me on September 30th uh was very uh was very welcoming met with me for about one to two hours stated that 50% of the funding for a jrc instructor is from in this case he's with the Army at Troy High School 50% of the funding comes from the Army 50% comes from Tucson Unified School District normally it's 50 cadets for one instructor that instructor normally has a bachelor's degree the equivalent of a sergeant E6 a major spe inform me that Fort wuka Davis mon Air Force Base the 355th Squadron they donate uniforms they've helped him with his jrc army at tro High School their focus is teaching leadership classes they are inspected every three years it is very serious um they also have my notes Here inspected every three years and they shot for a 95% success rate so they don't want to just pass they want to pass it early perfect passing rate they have to also submit a portfolio marching inspection um there is a cap on these programs Nationwide there's about 3,000 jrc programs in the United States as stated one instructor for 50 cadets at Troy High School they have a population of at least 1,200 to 1500 students so they actually have 100 cadetes and two instructors usually one week in a month the students are busy uh on campus or throughout the community doing color guards games uh raids um so it's very serious um uh he asked for for our our demographics I shared with him we have about 130 high school students more or less and he gave me some good feedback he said maybe what you can do to start it off because there's a jrc but I also asked him about Civil Air Patrol and he's well aware of that too but he says those expectations are very rigorous and he stated why don't you look at if you have anyone on campus who has some kind of connection to the military we do have one uh one teacher who has a veteran uh who who served in the military um he brought up the idea of an after school club to see what the interest is so I did speak with one of our teachers who served in the Air Force and he shared with me he was going to talk with his classes get some feedback so he said it's great it's it's it's doable you have start off with an after school club maybe maybe that teacher gets a stien gauge interest from the community the places that I mentioned to you are they willing to donate uniforms um and he was very impressed when I just told him what we have here right now how we have a kind of he said if you have two flight simulators in your Aerospace program for CT he's like I don't think there's no High School in 2 USC that has two flight simulators in one classroom for a space he goes that's a great start with a focus maybe on Air Force don't try and reinvent the wheel you have the Air Force Focus already why don't you try and focus on that and I explained to him our every Friday in our l space class that the students have their flight suits with their names and it says assistant instructor and their name and he was blown away by you guys have that he goes we don't have that I don't know if other any other school in the district has that so he sees some promise and he really thinks that it be a it'll be a something very special for for our so that's where we are and um very very professional very share the details of of what would be involved and I also last more where he's coming from I believe they have some um jrc programs just for any input he has also to share with yeah program we have a couple we one RC program and yes um we combine both our high schools but we have a high school enroll over 5,000 so we have the student population we do struggle to get to meet the numbers even with our population so that that was one and you have to meet that minimum requirement to get that guarantee that % funding so um one of my I I kind of agree there's recommendation to open a club up maybe the Board site for that club andage interest and see if you get up to that number um it's a expensive Endeavor if you can't get that match um from whatever military branch that you're associating with so that's just my my two so if it's an after school club is it going to be once a week how how how's that going to work we we we could we could talk about that I mean we could first we have to find a staff member I went write to Mr CH because of this background of the Air Force but first we'd have to find someone who commits to it and then see when we would start it and then I think our our after school clubs right now miss how often for any of the groups that we have how often do they meet normally or any any any but that's not a club that's a sport so that's that's my thing my biggest thing how often are they going to meet and how's that going to interfere with any of the kids doing sports that would be that would be a a good challenge to have because that would mean that we have someone who wants to do it and that would mean that we have yeah but I don't want it to be a challenge where it's an ultimatum I want them to be able to be able to do either both if they want to right Saturdays that's fine we have to find the person who first wants to commit to being the sponsor after and we don't we don't have that right now does it have to be a staff member we can look into it you can look at all options because we do have the American Legion here and they're all veterans right you can look at some options sure each after school club when they they make their own club they have to come up with their own Constitution they have to say that we're going to meet every Tuesday at this time um this is going to be they have to vote their president their vice president their all of that kind of good stuff and they have to make that in consultation with their um their sponsor because they have to make their own it's their own club it's a student Club so usfr says they have to make a student if they're making a student Club it has to be up to them because they're going to e their fundrais or they're going to have this that they can't the district can't if it's going to be a student Club the district can't supplement the student Club they have to start for now uh student council can say hey here's this for startup or whatever because it's coming from student council but if it's going to be a student Club it has to be just like the classes and and NHS the student council they have to make so that it would be up to the students how often when where who their officers work all of that kind of so it's run by the kids it's run by the kids at student Club you you have a spor right that's the only thing that they can they can say hey I want teacher so and so but then the district pass to say you have to you know have this or pass fingerprint check and do background they have to be interviewed and it can't we can't just say well the kids wanted you know Mr whoever and that's who we're going to it still have to be like an employee we have to be back and all that but if it's a student clote the student the usfr is really clear about the student has to if it's a student Club it has to be run by the students within reason I always use the horse like when I explain to the eth graders the the usfr says it's students money and they can buy whatever they want with it now within reason their sponsor if they say they wanted to buy horse I would hope that their sponsor and this Dar Pond would say well you know let's think about this and do that for whatever but within reason it's the students money that they're fund it's their Club so they run it within reason I personally still want to see this happen I feel like it would be very beneficial for our students yeah well I I I'll keep looking into it and I can just as as more information comes out I can either include it in a report study session meeting or the Govern updates that all on the same page all right question or comment all right moving on next item for discussion is an possible assistant principal position um her board request I did make this request to Dr sotero um a discussion of creating an assistant principal position of my thought process behind this is um we have a great Administration right now we have a great faculty also we have a lot of administration and your faculty wearing a lot of hats shorter a lot of responsibility um I think it would be H us and the administration if they had a little better spanic control with a third administrator thus being a vice principal that could take some of the you know my big thing is we lost a bunch of money in the gr I think we just have a lot of pressure on people a lot of responsibilities that should be spread out a little bit split between administrations so we have better accountability um you know for example we had Lance here his first year he was a teacher he wasn't even couldn't even be a principal you know that could take some pressure off our current principle If the vice principal is taking whatever responsibilities the administration would like to give them if we approve this position and it could we have more people and the administrative duties and it also gives our faculty if they so choose to find any kind of upward Mobility an additional point to start that so let's say like the example I gave Dr sco he's going to want to retire one day you know he may not want to his wife's going to make him you know who say you know Miss can't bump up to that and then here hey we have this vice principal guard has all this EXP experience working with the administration we can move them up so it gives us a pool of people we can move up the ladder also and it gives our faculty another place you say oh I can promote into this I can get more education to qualify for this so for me it seems like kind of a win-win just for the fact it's going to be able to have better accountability and our Administration like be spread so thin with everything they have to manage and I feel and I'm 100% against it I know that doesn't matter but I am 100% against I just don't think we're big enough to have an assistant principal job I mean one time we had a not that long ago about a little bigger enrollment than we have right now been a superintendent was also the principal you know and I I wouldn't want to go back to that but I just don't believe that we're big enough in the school district to have an assistant principal I I just I'd rather spend that money in the classroom than I would on on Administration here I'm not fine that's fine and and it is just my opinion but I I could I personally could not support position of assistance to principal let that lady came to us and said hey I'm overwhelmed I'm overwhelmed there's too much for me to do I can't handle it and then I might consider it but but I I don't I don't know how she feels about that I me let's ask her how do you feel about it well currently for I think of all the years I've been here since M 11 there's a lot of things that we need to do um you know as a principal you have to consider like a wide range of needs from 3K to 12 El is a different need High School is a different need what I appreciate appreciate about myself is my experience is both so I have both but at the same time we want what's best for the kids so we want I want especially I want everything done right or as best as we can currently um we have strategies in place so we have team leaders and team leaders are this year really great uh we have four team leaders we have our move on and reading coordinators directors that's working with the primary to make sure that we have the support that's needed for elementary and what else do we have we have our un of students right now house at the the office and he yes his spread pin and and I believe once we have the two teachers or three teachers that will be joining us very soon we can like the the things that we're planning to to add like's adding oh rest started practices rest started practice um um coordinator we can add that at that point so what I'm saying is there there's a lot of things that we need and I think we're doing the best we can to make it work at the same time at the same time you know if we are are in the the ideal world it's great to have an extra administrator the ideal world again right now I'm like I'm I'm focusing INR as an instructional leader working in operations like spreading myself thin as well but at the same time are we in the are we do we have the budget that's where I'm coming from do we have do we have that extra money I know having an extra administrator is is more expensive and maybe an extra person not administrator the same extra administrator will be great but an ideal say we have a de of students that Mr K that's Mr KC so is he kind of like I've always considered him like a rights principle without ACC having the job Mr K Mr G that's correct that in other districts that model is used I know Mirana I know G UniFi they have a principal and de students so that is a model that that is is quite popular throughout Southern Arizona to answer your question yes so if we elected to have an assistant principal would we still have this position of Dena students traditionally no you do not have you do not have the Dena students and the assistant principal so if you have an assistant principal what we would have to first this is a good discussion I mean you know before I talk even more M Rodriguez I I I see you and I see your eyes your eyes are moving before I say anything I think it's good to hear from you and Mrs C has our head of also then I'll say what I gu no for me I'm I agree with Mr God I think if we're going to hire another person I don't think it should be an Administration I would love to see another primary teacher to get our classroom size is smaller the last year that I taught here I am in a class of 27 first graders that is incredible I right now I'm teaching first grade 12 students in my class okay 27 kids in a classroom first graders and I think it was 15 of them were El students is outrageous so if we're going to spend money on another Personnel I don't want to see it in administration I'd much rather see it as classroom teachers let get these classroom sizes much smaller than what they are that my two Sense on that Mr Mr C M go ahead thank you m Rodriguez got an excellent point um but I just remembered back in 2011 we have this grant called the C Grant that enables the school to hire different people for the school office so we have the principal we have the behavior coach we have the instructional coach we have the an um and there's one more and we turn the school around into an a school because we have these people in place everyone feels supported you know everyone was not spread thing but then again we had that Grant to support that that was in say 13 years ago no that's that's a gr I would love for us to not have that means we are an underperforming district and the of we got back then it made a huge Improvement the students I mean it was massive and then it was gone C grants are no longer available right they don't they're not yeah they went away the reason we got that was because we got we were in both schools yeah and we had to turn it around or the state said that we were going to get taken over so that's why the grant was offered Mr K um I also asked Mr Mor if he could give his perspective dist perspective the numbers that's why I like this discussion so we get all the perspectives I a couple what we do with our districts have you know a lot larger elementaries and so we do have AP but our our elementaries our smallest ones at 550 our largest are at at 900 plus um we do have a principle AP kind of set up within the instructional coach to help assist with some pulling differ students that have higher needs out of those classes to um kind of the model that's those are kind of the three at the at the head of the hel the elementes um in addition just looking at your spending right as a whole and and how AO is currently allocating um and I'll cover this in the AFR in a second but um your your administrative spending per student is is very high compared to your peers your peer District are assigned by the general and they're similar size in structure as well for students right you're about $2,400 per student is your Fe average that 2100 so um a lot of those districts are are allocating resources more in the classroom or supporting the classroom um and so that's it's really that's my outside looking in perspective I know I've been helping the district for about two years now but um I'm my Hite every day and I can't speak what's going on in the class looking at 10,000 foot level so no I look I you all have very selling points Mr K great Administration right now better SP control responsibilities better accountability more people hand Administration we went better accountability when you first called me I said it's a good idea this uh Miss Rodriguez that's a great Point you're making I mean when I T first grade bilingual first grade 20 years ago I had 30 kids in the B classroom oh my goodness that's a lot you know that's a lot so your point is very know I had a teacher assistant though every day full time that might be an option to help this out Mr Guth you make a good point uh enrollment uh small i' rather spend that money in the classroom that's a great point for teacher salaries to try uh I'm just brainstorming with you whatever the cost is for an assistant principal 60 70,000 how could that go out to all the teachers to help increase their salaries every year to where they we we make our our teachers their their uh salaries more marketable competitive with other districts um Miss made a very good point where BR your needs you're doing a great job just from from my perspective the teacher leaders plc's uh that is that is a very uh U um best practice that other districts do uh dor and and Bob beer a professional Learning Community model that's very positive we want reading directors Dina students um um as soon as we have these new teachers helping out too that's going to be a big plus especially with Mr and missano and and uh um Mr Romo uh to answer your question too uh I think Mr Duffy um we do uh do work in collaboration like she does have a full place so whatever I can do in my role to also help I serve as a 504 coordinator I also serve as a facilities director so the facilities on a day-to- day with our our custodial services and grounds team I'll take care of that that way she doesn't have that on her plate because as a first year principal if you have to worry about facilities too that's a headache so trying to take that off her plate um parent and community outreach or parent coffees we take care of that so she doesn't have to worry about that and the website we take care of that so she doesn't have to worry about that so we are trying to to help out to where she she she's in classrooms a lot and that's where she should be that's critical so she can see the instruction she's meeting with Paris so we're all trying to help each other out um we have talked though her and I have already reached out with uh Elementary School principal in TD uh at one of the elementary schools in The District in tucon to give us feedback on how to get a restorative practices coordin in place and try and pil it maybe at our fourth to sixth grade level based on where the need is right now so that's in place we've been given some options of trains to send a restorative practices coordinator to so that person can be in place helping out the de of students as well so we're trying to be proactive even before whatever happens with this happens and so but great discussion um he gave us perspective I look at it this way sure if you guys feel you need that that's always on the okay as long as you guys don't feel overwhelmed and you feel things are under good span control I'm okay with that I just think it need be a good discussion that we had which I think was good and it's always something to be on I do agree points absolutely absolutely I'd love to see more teachers hir that's going to take a lot of pressure on especially the students and I I think for right now we have we have someone in mind and we have some restorative practices trainings um throughout the state that we can send this person to to address the issue right now so it's a good start start anybody got else all right moving on to the big one annual financial report as required by Ariz statutes 15-4 the gry board of Beach School District shall publish an annual financial report for the prior fiscal year the financial report shall contain budgeted and actual expenditures for the preceding fiscal year and shall be prepared and distributed by October 15 by the school district with they copy to the county school superintendent ad and posted on the website I apologize for having the board receive this and approve this tonight but um deadline for this approval October 15 so right between board meeting so that is why I am here tonight um so this annual fincial report is for last fiscal year eternally um so what this means is from um July 1st 2023 through June 30 2024 so we're looking at last year I'll just read there keep it going um but what this is it basically it's required by Statute that the board that the complete these there's five fors Sor and it's called basic the Ann financial report these five fors include the AFR Food Service AFR colossum site fund narrative a school level report and a CTE worksheet as well as the distri also has South Lo K greeing report k budget so um there was over just a couple highlights there's over 8.4 million in total expenditures that's all funds um it was down 1.4 million from prior year the main reason spending was down a lot of those ESS grants were expired going into this year or the district expended most of us in in the previous year um over 20,000 accounting transactions so just sorry I'm just second so over 20,000 accounting transaction that that entails know Angelina Ginger glor going through each one of these transactions um making sure they're in line with the auditor general and they follow all the compliance next slide this P graph represents a uh estimated classroom spending report so each year the after these reports the afrs are submitted to the aitor general the aitor general provides the board with a classroom spending report in November so i' I've done a little bit of work and anticipated what that report will look like um and so again this is all spending all funds not just maintenance operations or Capital this is every single fund that District spend and uh to go to the next slide I break this down comparatively over the years so just looking at FCO 23 to 24 I I showed some percentage changes in in some of the category of spending so just to recall what these categories are for so classroom's pretty self-explanatory right that's spending that for teachers teacher aids substitutes General instructional supplies instructional aads field trips Athletics um that's encompasses 48% of your budget we talked a little bit about trying to increase that that has increased over over prior year by 1.4% um speaking our goal is to get that to 15% in this year so that is right in the middle of your peer District comparison so out of all districts that have comparative size you right in the middle with that 40% in terms of classroom instructional support what that means is that's your Librarians teacher trainings curriculum Development Special Education media specialist instructional related technology Services um Alo last year um utilized a lot of grant funding to increase spending in in this area and so you see that reflected by the 20% increase that looks large but it's a small percentage increase but it's uh because 3% 3.6 it's a it's a big move student support just for recap that is your counselors speech pist nurses social workers attendance services that is up over last year um again a lot of that Grant funded Administration that is down um so in 23 that was prior to myself helping the district you had a couple Finance individuals in the district Smith um and so that those expend in 23 had administration of higher whereas last year really so Finance ini the was my Consulting um not saying it's perfect but my my expenditures are a lot less than what it would be to St somebody fully on site um I'm not trying to to my horn because there is we do have like I try to work hard to get communication to Mar and Casey and it's not perfect with me being outside but yeah um making progress um but that is the direct correlation of why that decrease so not saying that's a permanent solution but that is why that category decrease in school plant these are all your spendings on on school building operations um Al Engel does a great job of getting school facilities board money um and so your expenditures in this category of increase because of a lot of the projects that you've completed over the last couple years um including Roofing your your fire alarm and several HBC units so does a great job getting that money I struggle to get that money in another District so um does a great job there the decreases are transportation and Food Service um a lot of that's a function of just different miles that you're traveling with your bus and spending in that area so there's small decreases though those those spending categories represent a very small portion of your budget on the next slide the two main funds I want to highlight are budget verus cash control I talked about the budget funds these are your state funded allocated budgets so your maintenance operations your capital and your state and federales your three main so every student you get there's a state funded formula for that money on the on the bottom is your cash controlled funds these are your main cash controlled funds um that have little restrictions in terms of spending so I like to highlight those because those are often utilized to help support instruction or various spending discing spending so at the next slide looking at the ml budget um over the past three years budget has has slightly increased so that's represented the big uh the first bar graph the budget balance carry forward is what you're carry what you're not spending in that here so you have a budget and the percentage that you're not spending um has stayed relatively flat it went down slightly over last year and we' discussed that uh a large portion was related to the grants that were had had to be picked up by the M operation so we're hoping to restore that going into 25 but that represents 14% of your budget that budget b carry forth and that's extremely healthy um you have enough money if any emergency comes to support that at any given time so that's a very healthy buds carry forward and a good number just stick on the capital size again relatively flat through the last three fiscal years um you've done a couple more capital projects and so you can see the number or you see the the light or uh orange represents your budget accounts carry forward and so that that is slightly um just under say 23s of your your total budget so that that is very healthy uh it's over 750,000 and what you're carrying forward in in unallocated or contingency Capital so again very healthy you guys are in a good place and that I know several distes talked about for Capital spending and so you have capacity to fund some of those now just a reminder the carry forward is one time right so you once you spend it it's gone just for um comparison your annual capital budget is like 300,000 so that's when you get the Ann right now from your state so um just keep that in mind when you're looking at that number on your cash control funds um they've increased across the board at the the top food service has increased over the prior year cic Center has increased its rental um again a lot of reason that that's increased we haven't really touched that so we continue to build some of these cash funds for contingency uh Community Education um you are now charging um tuition so you're going to see that start to increase and that's going to be basically used now um to support that that Community Education process you saw that that or study session your overall Community Education cost costing about 70,000 so when you take that 45 that's where you at that like 30 that you're going to be absorbing indirect cost that is costs that you can charge back for grants for to to cover your overhead so um the district all your Grant programs um typically have somebody casing myself somebody managing those grants right so you can charge back those grants overhead and cover the cost of of myself Casey and so that's we've been leveraging those grants and increasing um the money back from indirect cost so that's a resource I talked about utilizing that potentially um maybe lifting some burden um of casy and reallocating some of that money support grants in in a better capacity AO being a small District a high red per you got an infinite number of possibilities to for for Grant applications it's really an infinite number and so um allocating more resources to try to leverage more GRS something I would consider the to look into in the future and and that's really it just a quick summary overall uh the is performing really well I think some of the increases in the category spending like we're making good strides and targeting instruction decreasing Administration um and and that's going to continue to to show as as the years go going it takes a while for some of this some of the decisions you make to actually show in these reports but um you can see just from a year some of these decisions starting to reflect in a positive way any questions so the Food Service money do we receive money from the state for food service so that money is derived from every um breakfast and lunch that is there so there's a reimbursement um amount for every breakfast and lunch and so that's a federal program administered through a and so your meal count your enrollments actually up a little bit so your meal counts are are inre so you'll see your reimbursements increase proportionally so 7% inflation you well you you 100% free so it's yeah the ad does increase the reimbursement amounts every year so um yeah there there is a portion of that that is they do it per kid they do it per meal per meal yeah breakfast and lunch have two different rates I'm assuming it's different from elementary to high school is it or is the same same it's just by meal breakfast and they because it's a federal program they they watch our but the the Food Service basically can run it on its own it is really it uses District Heth but the what we have and and what we we gain from from the program it pretty much runs itself so like last year in April or in may they were like you have too much budget how are you going to to spend the budg because they don't want us to be full free and get this money and then start to you know um gain gain money off of the the it's supposed to go back to the kids so then we have to tell ad and we have to tell USDA how we're going to spend that extra that extra cash flow by this date or that date or that date so then they want to make sure that everything is coming together and we're spending the money either on kids on the food or on the cafeteria it's not going somewhere else so we have those budget are the employees paid for that or they're all paid five everybody's paid by 510 right yeah every every is paid from that that fund and then we did create a plan this year to start replacing some equipment in the cafeteria with with some putting it back that I get a motion to approve or disapprove motion to approve second all in favor say I I all opposed pass 4 you guys could all sign right there so we can get that have we have to Let's wrap up the meeting first okay so that's it um any possible agenda items for for Wednesday or the future um I used to have that oneing um reading intervention with the new teacher right that one yes um before on boarding that teacher so I'm not sure when she's supposed to arrive if it's in November then I like have it Wednesday later than that I supp we can push it out till November earli I know I know it's ready we have wednes anything else get a motion to adjourn I'll make the motion I'll second all in favor say I I oppos say noed don't forget everybody sign this