So we want to do that presentation for you tonight on the school district side. So um with that I will introduce DA who I also ask to think uh thank she's been involved in this process from the very first step and and you know how DA is with the arts. She's has a passion for the arts and um she's a go-getter. So I thank her for everything that she's done and I will turn over the mic to you D. Thank you. It's already on. Okay. Thank you.
It's grown by 63% since 2019. Half a million girls are playing now. That's five times as many as we're playing in 2007. Olympic sport in 2028. Backed by the NFL. I'm going to Halis Hall next Sunday to be trained by the Chicago Bears staff to help coach this team. Free. They're invested in it. They just hosted the first Illinois girls university versall. There's 154 IHSA teams already, 200 by 2026, and just under 100 colleges have approved teams. We've already started. These girls advocated to start the program. After the season was over, seven 70 of them came with me to play in private winter and spring leagues and won the first trophy for the program. Okay. I like to say all the time, my grandma Joyce loved Notre Dame football. All she could do was listen to it on a radio. My mother loved football. All she could do was be a cheerleader.
We've had people tell us um we've lost our insurance. We can't get on any assistance and we'll take their numbers. We'll take their blood pressure, their blood sugar, their hemoglobin, their oxygen, their A1C. Um pulse oxygen and BMI and give them all their numbers and we're and cholesterol and we're finding people with very high blood sugars, very high cholesterol, very high um blood pressures and they're telling us that I I've had at least two diabetics say yes, I am a diabetic, but I can't afford my medicine and I have no I have no doctor. So, we can help a lot of people in that way. So that's kind of our pet project under the chronic disease one. And suicide's a pet project under injury and trauma prevention. Although we are going to give out um some grabbers at the fair for elderly people. We're going to look at fall prevention, bike helmet safety, um swimming safety, safe sleep sacks.
The most common that we will see tonight are the Tetris line clears, which are clearing four blocks with a single move, and the infamous T-pin, where you make a T-shaped hole and you spin uh the purple T block into it. I've heard about the T-pin. I want to see it happen. Uh it's been happening. Oh, and I'm already missing it. This is like the grand slam in Tetrio, right? Yeah, that's the that's the big move. So, the T-pin double, it does the same amount of damage as clearing four lines, and the T-pin triple does even more. It is a big move. The most common move you'll see in highlevel Tetris. Hunter was getting up there pretty high. What do you do in the situation where it's stacking up and up and up? Well, you've got to stay calm. You've got to clear get those smaller clears.
If they're if they're not eating, how do these kids get fat? Seriously, I mean, if if the food's not available and no one's paying for it, it's just ridiculous. And of course, it's the villain hero villain thing that Mora Hill is doing. I swear she's trying to run for some bigger office cuz she keeps going after Trump and she can't even control the nasty bad stuff that's going on in in her own state. I saw a psychologist today on on X and he was uh his his question was, "How can you tell when people are dangerous?" And he said, "You will run into people who will either commit a crime or some type of personal offense against you." And what they do is they come up with an excuse and a reason why it was done rather than simply apologizing and owning what they had done, basically holding themselves accountable.
The gymnasium isn't really it's not that the elementary schools or the high schools necessarily have a a better or worse gym. It's really which ones have air conditioning or bleachers. And that's the function of the gym, not the location. And so switching that to honor, you can see there's type one, type two, and type three with different rental rates for our gymnasiums. And so those are some of the changes that you'll see here. also listing the hourly fees and updating those. The custodian going from $50 an hour to $55 an hour uh on the day and then evenings switching it from 65 to 75 and then charging a Sunday and holiday rate of $100 an hour. And then we also didn't have food service workers listed. That actually goes through our nutrition department rentals of our kitchen space. And we just want to list how much we're charging for food service.
And so uh Miss Vasquez will be helping her and training her and Mr. Del also and that was the committee and just made a good point that we've never had so many people apply for that position and it was it was great to see we just so all of you know we had all these positions internal. We really wanted just to promote them within. We wanted to uh increase our recruitment and retention, but we also wanted just to build that motivation to where all these people now are going to different positions, but it was all people from the district where they feel that I can do this or I want to do this now just to try and build that professional growth internally.
Good evening madam president, governing board members and cabinet. This evening we are pleased to present the collaborative efforts of the city of Surprise Daart Unified School District and the Vista Foundation led by theater DNA. We will discuss the findings from the feasibility study conducted by theater DNA for the Vista Center for the Arts. This study aims to guide the city of Surprise in making informed decisions about the future investments in arts culture in the arts and culture partnerships programming and facilities. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of a partnership between the city and the district to ensure the sustainable operations of the Vista. This partnership seeks to enrich the cultural landscape and promote economic growth in Surprise while upholding Daart Unified School District's commitment to education. A significant amount of time and effort has gone into this study as Dr.
My wife was a US Olympic eluge candidate. She could go down an ice shoot 90 miles an hour, but she couldn't play football. My oldest daughter, Aurora, is at Johns Hopkins right now. No one loves bodying people up like Aurora. She couldn't play football. But now my daughter, Sen gets a chance to play. This is moving in the right direction. Let's be a part of that solution. Let's help move it forward and just keep it going. We're happy to help. We just need the same support you guys give other sports like boys football. So, thank you. Thank you. What's what's your other kid? All right. Hi guys. Uh, thanks for having us speak tonight. Um, good evening. I'm going to sit down. All right. Thank you for this opportunity to speak. Um, my name is Abby Jambor. I am a current school counselor and coach at Asiggo High School.
I'm taking car seat training right now to be a car seat technician. So we're looking at a lot of safety issues under that, but our big piece on safety is going to probably address the elderly in Brown County, too. So, just so you know, our KPIs come from the state of Indiana. Um, they actually evaluate Brown County in a fiveyear snapshot and they tell us what our top key product indicators are and so when what we should focus on and then we actually submit a to them and what uh what they expect we hope will be the result within so many years. Um and so with the base sensors they look they do look at these and know that it will be a period of time. It's not going to be an instant fix. Um so all of the KPIs that we do have you can find on the IDO Brown County link website.
You got to not prioritize damage, but rather prioritize getting yourself out of that pit. Sure. That was an impressive move there. He was up all the way at the top. Now he's back down to the first like 25% of the board. That's great. Very good moves. There's a lot of players who would have just lost the round there. But not the golden goose. Not Hunter. I guess that's a new nickname that I've gone for him now. The golden goose. What? Add on a third different tag now. Yes. Let's get another one. Yes. Perfect. Anyway, we got Hunter up 200 right now. He needs one more round win to seal the deal. That's a great place to be sitting, but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. Hunter's got to stay calm and and like you said, seal the deal here. Yes. Oh, hold on.
So when you look at all these Massachusetts politicians, they blame everybody for everything else that they do. It's always someone else's fault or the fault of some other uh program or principal or somebody else's idea. And uh it seems to be like uh like like it's a psychosis. Yeah, it sounds strange. I'm no doctor, but uh but keying a Tesla. I mean, that does what? And putting a Nazi insignia on there. What the hell is that all about? It's out of control. John, you know, if there if there's a kid that needs a free lunch, the three of us are going to move heaven and earth to make sure that kid gets a free lunch. But what Mora Healey did is she took it and made free lunches for everybody. You know, we're of the age where our kids didn't get free lunch because it was our job to, you know, pay for our kids.
worker, which is the same amount as a custodian. A food service worker is required when our kitchen is being used, but we actually are not going to charge for the kitchen space, just the kitchen worker in general. That is serve safe certified, making sure that people are using the kitchen appropriately with all equipment. So, those are some of the larger changes to the actual fees. I'm seeing if I missed anything before I stop for some questions. um rental categories, duration, and then the one other thing is you'll see the groups listed on the right hand side. Group one, group two, group three, group four. So you can just see which fall in which groups. Um the only thing changes for group one, which we are not planning on charging anyone, is I which select activities at the discretion of superintendent of schools. Just adding that to group one would be the is the same.
Any questions or comments? If not, we'll go on the next one. Approval of the 2526 prek childcare director Mr. President, members of the board, administration posted, interviewed internally a prek child director position recommending lay2 as the prek and childcare director with a start date of June 1st, 2025. No board action necessary session. The next item is the issuance of classified notice for appointments for the 24 256 academic year. Mr. President members of the board administration is requesting board approval for the issuance of notice of funds to the following classified staff support staff. We have them from each section there. Facilities custodian bus driver office staff cafeter staff teachers aids no board action necessary. This is a study session item.
Croto just shared. Um, I would like to extend my gratitude to the Surprise City Council, the City of Surprise Sports and Tourism Department, as well as the City of Surprise Arts and Cultural Department, the Vista Foundation, Dr. Croto Cabinet, and this board, um, as well as my team for their contributions leading up to this presentation. With that, I will now turn the podium over to Alex Hargus from Theater DNA. Okay. Uh madame president uh governing board and cabinet, it is a pleasure to present with you tonight and uh also to say to echo the sentiments of everyone else here. It has been a real treat to see how well all of the stakeholders have worked together from the district to the city to the foundation. We do this a lot all over the country and we don't always see that level of camaraderie between groups and so it it was very refreshing and y'all should be commended.
I've worked in the district for six years and in education and athletics for 21 years. This past fall, as coach said, I had the privilege to be one of our volunteer coaches for that club that the girls started and promoted and advocated for all by themselves. Um, what an amazing experience. Coach Chris, you know, talked about some of those facts, so I won't go over those. But what did I witness my firstand account? 56 young women, different shapes, sizes, all different backgrounds with variety of life experiences all came together. They learned a new sport with new rules and new coaches. They grew, they bonded, they supported one another as they experienced some tough losses and some life challenges that many of our students face today. Um, players who had played other sports, players who had never played a a organized sport before, and some with flag football all came together.
You can go in there and find out all the information of where they came with with the numbers. Um it's hard to say, but Brown County is the highest in the state of Indiana for suicide. And so um we are looking at those numbers and um we now are with is it sofa? Is that how you pronounce it? Serum fatality review board that we the suicide fatality review board we're on and they're looking at asking for funding for from us to assist them in their cause as well. Is that broken down though as far as where the people actually are residents? Yeah, it's only res and will they look also at overdoses as poisonings. So um and we lost three people this last week. So um we are doing that at least some once a month you're losing one to two people it's it gets pretty big really quickly enough that the governor had us you know said you have got to start addressing this so one thing that Sherry did do and I was so thrilled with the nurses is they put um these fentanyl strips in these bags because we don't want people doing drugs but we can't stop them from doing drugs but the drugs we just got noticed last was from Lawrence County that there was a bad batch that had been sent out.
Never mind. I just noticed this. It seems that the bracket has gone through a change now that we're in the deeper stages. This is no longer best of five. This is first to five. Oh, okay. Changes things up a little bit. Yeah, a bit of a change there. So yeah, I guess that makes sense. As you climb higher in the rankings of this game, you go from first to threes to first to fives. Okay. So yeah, I guess that makes sense. Off to a great start here. It's looking good for Hunter. He's taking a bit longer to think in some of these uh interactions in this particular round. There's the quad coming through. Both players at about the same spot in the board. Hunter pulling ahead though. There it is. Nice. All right, he needs two more rounds. He's got a good lead. He's got to keep the pressure up, though.
When I went to school and probably when you guys went to school, we didn't get free lunches because it was our parents responsibility. Now listen, if there's a kid that needs a free lunch or a free breakfast, I'm all for helping them. But to make a blanket policy that every kid eats for free in the schools, you don't need that. Well, it's like the college college for free. Free college for everybody. Free, free, free. Joe Biden wanted to pay back people's college debts. I don't know where these people think the money is coming from, but I know that there's a $36 trillion debt. So, it's coming from somewhere. I wanted Joe Biden. What's the most expensive thing in the world? Something that's free. You know, the most expensive thing you're ever going to do is, you know, do do a free program. Now, granted, we're all going to help kids in need and people in need and, you know, veterans in need.
I'm sorry. Add what to group one? Group one. The last last one. I select activities at the discretion of the superintendent of schools. If there's an event that we don't want to charge for. Oh, that's an addition. Yes, that's one addition. And then the rest of them remain the same. So, I just talked a whole bunch. The questions about the fees. So my question go go go right ahead. My question is um what was the you might not know this what was the the original five hour minimum I'm not sure I know threeh hour is predicated on the union contract excuse me I'm sorry the custodians um in their contract if they're working overtime they have a threehour minimum so that's where ties in the three hour reduction So I'm just wondering if any analysis was done to show would people use less time do you think was a threehour minimum?