We could be downstairs. Okay. Question. Absolutely. How many hours does it take to get to that uh national I don't know how many hours it take you to national two years. Two years. Wow. Wow. Thank you. [Applause] Yes. Make sure I didn't skip over anything. Okay. Next is student board representative to make a report. Present a report. All right. So, starting off at Anaheim, Anaheim Girls Water Polo has made its congressional debut as Congressman Li Korea recognized these females for their outstanding teamwork and CIF win. Additionally, Anaheim High School dance and the DA are with their annual spring concert breaking limitations. Students were brought to the spotlight to show their dedication and commitment to the performing arts. Now, let's look to CVA. CVA's highlight is regarding their clothing drive in which they are collecting clothes to give back to the community. The distribution will be held in April.
We have also begun discussions on salary increase. Our latest comps from CTA include the 14 districts in the high desert are extremely disappointing. When looking at salary, AVUSD ranks ninth, but will move to 10th after Barstow receives their 11.25% 25% on salary, 7% on health and welfare, and 8% off schedule raise. Overall comps, which include salary and health and welfare, we are ranked low as well with Baker, Helenale, Needles, and Oral Grand being the ones lower than us. Silver Valley has now moved above us. When looking at career earnings which are from 2324 so this year has not even touched there yet. We are ranked ninth both at 20 and 30 years. Baker, Needles, Silver Valley and Trona are the districts that are below us. When we look back at the comps from 2018, 2019, and earlier, ABUSD was always ranked fourth in the desert.
Here we have that same information plotted on the map. And what you see here is this whole area of the dark blues. Those are all title one schools. School 1 3 4 um 17 12 11 and even the teals are also title one schools 13 and 14. Those are primarily title one. However, because students who attend them that don't live in those neighborhoods, they come from the other neighborhoods, but their programs are located there. And then you have these light yellow and green schools, and those are the schools with our lowest poverty, lowest number and percentage of free and reduced lunch. So now we see based on all of that information what a redistricting scenario for the middle school can look like. The proposed based on that data is for the students residing at schools 1 3 4 9 and 12 would remain at Columbus.
I will never ever let you go. I love you all so much. [Music] You can dance while we carry on till the night is gone and it's time to go. She asks if you're all alone. Can she walk you home? You just tell her to go. Don't forget who's taking you out. I need to find the last dance for me. [Music] Oh, I know that the music's fine like sparkling wine. Go and have your fun. Laugh and [Music] sing. Don't give your heart to anyone. Don't forget taking you home. So darling, save the last days for me. So don't forget who's taking you for a new. So darling, sing the last dance for me. Oh darling, sing the last dance for me. [Music] Darling for me the last day for me. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] All right, We we have come to the final song of the evening and real quick um I want to thank uh Mrs.
Support staff are keeping campuses running smoothly and building the kind of trusted relationships that often make the biggest difference for a student. Administrators are managing all of it. Student needs, staffing shortages, school safety, family concerns day in and day out. And we're doing it all without adequate funding. Educators are doing more with less. Again, they're holding the system together with passion and creativity, but we cannot continue to rely on their personal sacrifice to make up for a lack of public investment. Meanwhile, our state continues to expand the school voucher programs that siphon hundreds of millions of dollars away from public education without accountability, without transparency, and without serving the vast majority of Arizona students. Every dollar diverted to these programs is a dollar that doesn't reach our classrooms, our students, or the professionals working tirelessly to support them. Right now, we are at a critical moment.
I know. God bless him. He was a great mentor. But I get to walk in and teach kids like that. I've had my you I've had all of your children. I love science. You guys give us the ability to the freedoms. Um we have great leaders that you've helped hire. I mean, it's just an incredible place with relationships that we can make with these kids. Um, I mean I I could have probably gone somewhere else over the 25 years, but there was never never an inkling that I would want to do that. And I tried to tell our young ones and I tried to tell the ones coming in and ones that I had as students that this is the place to be just because of not just the relationships with the students but with the board. I can go to any of you, talk to any of you, um, admin, Jay, you know, Chris, anybody.
It has to be like seven pages at least. Um, and then we also have the exhibit right here. The girls who did this one are all playing softball right now. They're very involved people. Um, and then they also could have done like you can do put on a show like do a play or something. We're like, "Okay, we're not gonna dabble in that just yet. I don't know if we're ready for that." Um, but they all kind of did these different things and they could do a website. So, it was really cool to see them dig into the research and try to make these historical arguments. Um, and so then they go on from the regional level at handover to state. And so, we have several kids going to state. Um, and that's later on this month. And so, that's at Maran University. So, that's going to be really cool.
Um, and figured it had fallen off the mustd do this week because of everything else. So, that's fine. Um, number seven on here is an approval not required plan for Ashlin Sherburn and Frammingham Open Space. And this is kind of interesting but a little complicated and you're are you gonna Yes. So I can explain it but so we were planning today to I was planning to bring the miler so it could get signed but there was some questions about the so I think that it's on your binders and you can look in page I think it's the first page. Yeah. So this one is a an a a a grant that Frammingham I think championed and then it's going to come to become a conservation restriction land. Um so but the parcel of land happens to be falling within the three different communities right Firmingham Sherburn and Ashen.
I look forward to waking up at six o'clock in the morning, which most people don't. And I just am excited and invigorated and just I cannot wait to work with the kids, to see them, to talk to them, to offer them support. Um and uh we work really really hard as a fifth grade team to make sure that all students are heard, that they are cared for, and that they get what they need. Um and I I just love what we do. I like today we were taking sugar cubes in a container to show weathering and erosion in science and we were playing Jump in the Line by Harry Bellfonte and I had kids jumping around the room with joy shaking containers of sugar cubes and it just it sometimes is hard to hear the perceptions from the community which I completely understand. Greenfield was in a different place a couple years ago at the middle school.
um because they make it fun and I like to have fun with them and I like to see them grow as people and as athletes. Um so this is really not just about me. It's about all every athlete I have had on my team in the last you know and I started coaching in 1982 with a cross country team and then went to track. Um so it's about not only US athletes but all the athletes that I've had before too. Um, and you know, so that's what makes it special is them. [Applause] She got to have other people haveever. little slide over. [Applause] How are you? [Applause] there just and Rob will tell me I'm never just like, you know, done, but um he's been coaching ing with me for too long. He knows that I'll keep on speaking. Um, I just also wanted to say that, you know, you don't do it alone.
Another highlight was their trip to Cypress College for seniors. Seniors from CVA luckily had the opportunity to go on a field trip to Cypress College and it was a step into their professional journeys. Now for Cypress, their highlight was their Centurion Games, a schoolwide fundraiser to raise money for the oncology department at Chalk Hospital. In total, they raised over $3,000. Upcoming Cypress has prom, the senior capstone, and every 15 minutes. All approaching soon, so stay excited for that. Now let's look into Catella. For Catella, Catella's arts week was a huge success. Many students participated through drawing and showcasing their creativity, one of their five C's. It brought students together. And during this week, our their art teacher, Miss Kubak, provided a make your mark poster with the help of their incredible ASB Commissioners of Arts. It allowed many students to create their own art and what they felt at that moment.
We have fallen significantly since 2019 2020 from fourth to 10th. Why are we not the priority? This brings me to ask why the board is voting on the issuance of tax and revenue anticipation notes tonight for million. Are we in that bad of a revenue shortfall? How will that benefit? How will that be beneficial? And what is the interest rate on that? We have heard different explanations for the reason behind this financial crisis, but no clear and coherent explanation. We have heard no plan for making sure this doesn't happen again. We hope this will come soon. Thank you. [Applause] I believe it's Shandon. I pronounced that wrong. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's Shandon. Good evening, members of the board. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Shandon Lusendon and I teach seventh grade at Vanguard Preparatory School. I'm here because our teachers are exhausted and more importantly, they're discouraged.
Students residing at schools 2, 11, 13, 14, and 16 could remain at Woodrow with a proposal of students at 5, 8, 15, and 17 being redistricted to the new middle school. So, how did that how does that reflect this decision-making process? Well, schools five and 8 are both non-title one schools. One of them comes from Woodrow. One of them comes from Columbus. Both of them um showing the number of fifth graders could go to the middle the new middle school. Schools 15 and 17 are title one schools. One of them from Woodrow, one from Columbus. So what we're looking at is reducing just with the fifth graders rising to sixth both Woodro and Columbus by approximately 100 to 110 students and the students would be coming from one title one and one non-title one out of Columbus and one title one and one non-title one out of wood.
Lisa Lennahan our vice principles for being here this evening uh Mr. Brock Mistlin our uh humanity supervisor I want to thank Mrs. uh Jess Benoodi for helping us on lights and sound this evening um Dr. Hannah is here as well. So, thank you all for coming and showing and supporting our awesome musicians up here. Um, I also want to thank my whole family's in the back. So, hi. Thanks for coming everybody. I really always appreciate your support and I love you all. And I want to thank all of you parents, grandparents, everybody for coming and supporting your grandchildren, your children in what we do here. It's Mr. Pier and I say it all the time and we're never facitious about it. We totally fully 100% enjoy working with these awesome young talented musicians behind us and they really make it a lot of fun and really easy to do what we do and it just shows in their excitement for what we do and showing up and being dedicated.
The state budget has not yet been finalized, and federal funding for our most vulnerable students is uncertain. Decisions are being made in the coming days and weeks that will directly impact how and if we can continue to meet the needs of our students. If there was ever a time to act, it is now. So tonight, we're not just asking this board to stand with us. We're calling on everyone in our Morirana community, educators, support staff, families, and neighbors to contact your legislators. Let them know you believe in strong, well-funded public schools. Tell them our students deserve more than what's left over after vouchers are paid out. Tell them we need a budget that fully funds public education because our kids are worth the investment. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] Okay. I move that the governing board approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. All those in favor?
So, it's just a really special place. So, there went that. That was not what I was going to say, but after hearing them, I had to just comment. It's just a great place to teach. Um, my name is Payton Sudter. Um, if I haven't met you before, I know a lot of you guys already, obviously. I've had some of you guys as teachers and coaches and other things like that. So, um, just to hit on a couple of main points. Um, the one reason that I am here is because I am introduced to teaching. Um, as far as help that I've received during that throughout this year, it's been great. Um, Jay has provided me with a lot of resources on how to get the ball rolling on that. And then as far as actually executing it, um, and I'll say the same thing about the department math-wise, but like I can lean on Craig, Carol, um, Montgomery, Fenomore, these have all been really, really, really good people who've been helping me get through this program and get set up and get in the right direction as far as that is concerned.
So, Whitney's going to tell you what she got out of her project because she did an excellent job. Thank you. Um, the first step in any research project is obviously choosing a topic. So, I did mine by researching women's history and then picking out a specific, uh, role model, you would say, um, from those great candidates. And I chose Elizabeth Katie Stanton. She was a really good activist. She did a ton of work in the field. And I gained a lot of skills throughout the project, like how to write a thesis statement, how to write a process paper, and also a ton of editing skills that I used inside of my documentary. And I will definitely use all of these skills in high school and other research projects that I will come across this year. She's like a tiny Kin Burns. You guys ever see those documentaries?
So as the process of purchasing the land, what the requirement was is to make an ANR. So you could have a clear idea of what are the boundaries that this property is going to be um been purchased and what would the town receive. Um because after that it will move to conservation and then they will work on the conservation restriction. Um so I spoke with the planner of Frammingham who has been the one in charge of leading this. Um, and so when they gave us the ANR, there was two parcels at the bottom that had two different na names of owner comparison to our assessor's map. And so we wanted to make sure that that was correct. So we did a title search, we sent it back to our assessors and the town council and they came back saying that the one that we had on the assessors was correct.
People were fleeing the middle school because of you know different things that were happening but that's changed. you know, we are we are sort of leading the pack as far as the growth that's happening in this district and the progress that we are making. And a lot of that comes from not only what we're doing inside the classroom, but outside of the classroom. The fifth grade has a huge hand in all of the uh community events that we have been putting on over the last three years. Um, and it just is a really good place to be. And I know that we are used to fifth grade being at an elementary level, but we escort them everywhere. They do not have to do anything by themselves. We coach them and support them in becoming independent and being able to advocate for themselves and to stay organized and learn how to, you know, do homework and and all of that.
And uh some people who I really appreciate all they they do for me, the other athletes in our team is our current athletic director, John, but also Steve Tofone, our for now former athletic director. Um and uh Sue Murphy, who is our um administrative assistant, or she just runs the show at the high school. Been the athletic director the whole time. I don't know what we would any of us coaches would do without her. So, I really appreciate all the help that I get from all of you. And um yes, and for those of you who remember Wayne Candela, too. So, um thank you for all your support. Thank you. And congratulations to everybody. It's really great to celebrate and I wish this was done during our previous prior meeting to this um because somebody said it best. This is the product of what we support.