I don't know. I mean, okay. I just think it should you should broaden the definition. Well, we'll work on that job description. That's for sure. Yeah. And I do think a minimum of five years. So, so could I just throw this out for discussion? Since we're going to expect this person to have had five years experience as a principal, could we start this column at step five or step six in the from column M 795? Yeah. Could we start that one there since we expect because principal who comes in on column M at step one has never been a principal before anywhere. Yeah. Before you're going to require five years. I I could see that. Can you live with that? That we move it over to make it seven either 78750 or 795. Yeah. To start on it makes I'd say go 7850. Yeah. 78 750.
Okay. Fiveyear mark. That makes sense. Carolyn maybe come in on step six. And then 1,600 hours. Well, it you could approve it with the with the changes if you're willing to do so so that we can get it posted, get the position posted with salaries and, you know, salary range and those things. So, it would basically go by $250 a year experience down from 850. Well, it's 750. 750, but yes. So, we Yeah, it would just we'd move this over this column over and move it up and fill in the blanks at the bottom. And then,600 hours. That's another uh that's another week of work. Yeah, that's why it said 16 hours. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Do we have a motion? I make a motion that we uh for the instructional specialist salary that we start them at 78,750 and the hours increased to600. Second.
All those in favor? I Melinda Saski. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barbber Ziki. I Judy Reid. Okay. Thank you. Well done. Um Um 7.1 proposal to add one special education par profofessional position at Desert Valley. Are you sure we only just need one? I'm ser I'm serious. I'm serious. At this time it's they are on overload. Well the uh and and I'm not laughing at you. I'm Kate and I've had these conversations. So, the new uh the new position that you all approved last month for uh the additional life skills classroom at Desert Valley, our life skills classrooms have two pairs in each of those rooms. Okay. Uh we have one position uh that we are moving from another site. So, this person would have if you approve this position would have two pairs for that classroom. It's just that we're moving one from another site.
So that's an already acceptable needed, right, where they're not needed and and then add this position and Kate's been involved in this discussion thoroughly through all of this. So how do you guys feel about it? I think if they need them, then we definitely should. And especially being with special ed and stuff, I you you can't put enough par professional people in a special ed class as far as I'm concerned. especially with some of the classes we have to have over here and stuff. Okay. Then I can I have a motion to approve um adding one special education par professional position in Desert Desert Valley. I make a motion to approve to add one special education par profofessional at Desert Valley. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I saski. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barbara Zerki. Hi. Judy Reed. Okay. 7.2 proposal to add one halfime paraprofessional position at Bhead City Middle School.
What would this paraprofessional be doing? This um I will tell you that this is an example of um of people taking a challenge and uh and uh or or the the proverbial taking lemons and making lemonade. So, uh, at the middle school currently, our ch our students have only one recess. So, it's fifth and sixth grade. They only have one recess. It's after lunch. Um, the, um, about six weeks ago or so, uh, the principal asked if we could have enough PE classes at the middle school so that every middle school student could have PE every day. So currently the students have uh one/4th of the students have PE you know at any given time any given quarter of the school year one/4 of the students have PE okay because it's one of the specials and they rotate. So I'm looking at that and I did some calculations and I'm going I can't add six I can't add six PE teachers so that every student at the middle school gets PE every day.
So, uh, they went back and, uh, did some things to their schedule. So, what they're proposing and and I've given my blessing to because I think it's I think they've just been really creative with this is, uh, that they've shortened their class periods by a couple of minutes, two or three, four minutes. They've shortened their home room by a few minutes, and added one more period to the day. What, however it is that they had to adjust minutes to do that without extending the day. Okay? and then uh created a schedule that would allow every student to have PE every day um using all seven periods. Okay, so right now uh they have I think it's six periods and uh and the PE teachers teach five of those six periods. So to make this work they need the P they need PE to operate all seven periods of the day.
Okay. So uh uh so for six so for six of those periods there would be for five of those periods it would be both PE teachers. Four of those periods I guess no five of those periods it would be both PE teachers with two classes of kids. For two periods it would be a teacher and a parah. So the other teacher gets a lunch break and a and a prep period. Okay. Um, and then the then flip it and the other teacher in the parah have PE. So, we're talking about a half-time position so that both of those teachers still get a prep time and a lunchtime. Um, and and all of the kids get PE every day. So, now they have physical activity every day in addition to their little lunch recess. Uh, pretty creative solution uh with a pretty minimal cost uh for our kids.
And uh so it's a halftime position, you know, 0.5 um and um um I I am very much recommending this for our our folks and we can afford it. What's what's the chances of finding somebody for a half position like that? You know, it was like uh when I asked you last month as part of that big plan for next year to have a part-time substitute custodian and and even though I really am convinced we need that, part of my mind is going how how likely are we to find that? And yet when one of when the facilities person who's been looking at because Mark doesn't do all of these pieces anymore. Um uh the facilities person who's been looking at uh hiring people, he has two applicants already for that position. So I guess I would say based on that that we probably have a pretty good chance of finding somebody who might want to work in the middle of the day uh for you know for what two and a half hours three or four hours whatever halftime with middle school kids with fifth and sixth graders.
That's about all you're [Music] I I mean I have to tell you I think this was a hugely creative thing on their part and um to solve to solve a tough problem and to do something really good for those kids. Yeah. And it's good to have PE every day. Yeah. Yes, it is. Do I have a motion to add this one half time person as middle school? I'll make a motion that we add a halftime pair professional position at Bullhead City Middle School. I'll second the motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Saskki. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barb, Judy Reed. Okay. Item 7.3, contract with Chartwells for food service school year 202526. And we have Christina here who is the manager. She might have some qu some answers that I don't have. I just have the documents. I did meet with Corey last week uh who is the regional what's regional?
He's her boss. Okay. For Chartwells and uh and uh brought these documents. So uh and then there was some updating that needed to be done. So we got them in time to get them in this agenda. Uh keep in mind this is year two of essentially a five-year contract. We put this out for bids last year uh to a number of uh a number of vendors and um and when we do that it's always for a fiveyear. So this is really excuse me this is really an amendment to the existing contract and there are some changes in it because of food costs and those things. So um I'm I'm not quite sure what order I have these in. Uh Christina, would you come up close in case they have questions for you? Um they may or may not, but we don't have to have you running around.
So, if you'll just show them in order. Uh, Cass the um, uh, Okay. So, um, this just I think this just verifies that um, it's a verification. Yeah. Is that what this one is, Christina? Of of the price determination. Um, and u, we would have to sign it. Um, any the same thing as we did. Yeah, it's it I mean we do these forms each year. Okay. Um and then the next one, Cass, if you would. Okay. So, this is the guarantee of uh minimum return. So, uh they're guaranteeing that we would have at least 150,000 on top of our of our expenses um uh to to them. And um this amount is important to us because it helps us pay some salaries. uh for secretaries in our district and um uh Casera Mach who is our business office person who does food service things.
So it helps us pay parts of their salaries, pieces of their salaries. Um so that at least this amount of money then is available for us for all day kindergarten um in in our M budget. I have a question. Under the conditions specifies student enrollment of at least 2190. looking at them. What happens to this if for some reason uh since we are such a transient district, what what happens if we go below 2190 because I think we're really close to that right now. Pretty close to that. Um Cass, can you go back to superintendent reports? I thought we were at 2173 or something right now. And um well, I don't want the monthly the second one there. That's the Yeah, the student count 21. Yeah, we're slightly below that right now. So So what happens? That's a good point. Um might have to have them recalculate this a bit.
That's a really good catch. Very good. Um, yeah. Yeah. Uh, okay. So, let's look at the other documents. That's a good catch. We'll have to uh work with them on that. Uh, and this is the this is the contract. It's it's the amendment. It's called an amendment. uh because uh year two is always amendment number one and uh and it just summarizes all of those other documents. um and approval of those and then okay so this is pro this is their projection based on what happened for the is happening for the current year um so uh uh they're estimating our uh total reimbursements to be around a million nine and then they've got the expenses for the current [Music] year and the fees and uh and you can see the um uh that there are rebound rebates and those things and the surplus is 185,000 and that's that was not what we thought it was going to be because remember I said we we didn't we don't have the snacks and so that's hurting us in this because as I recall uh in the In the original thing, it was uh I'm thinking it was about 200,000 or 220,000.
It was a It was a bit higher than this. Okay. Right. I mean, I'm making sense of that. Yeah, it's down some. Okay. And then this is a document they have to give us that talks about the pricing uh per meal. um the administrative fees for uh that Chartwells charges us to to run the program. You guys have thought this through with USDA and all that stuff. Yes, that has been talked about everything you know it's kind of USD what they'll do. We did not, am I correct in saying we did not get hit particularly hard by the drop in the local food thing? And part of that is because Chartwells is part of Compass and it's a nationwide, you know, so there's economy of scale with something that big. Um, and we we particularly did not get hit with that uh big cut in the funds for locally produced food products that other districts in Arizona got hit with.
So, what do we do about that number? Well, we'll have to get it fixed. So, it may change our numbers a bit. So, um um and I'm sorry I missed that because we would have had it fixed. So, we may just need to bring it back next meeting. We just table it. We'll have to table it because we'll want it. We all want accurate numbers. Do we need a motion to table? Yes. Um madam madam president. Yes. I move that we uh table this discussion about the contract with Chart Wilson until next month. Is there a second? I second it. All those in favor? I Meinda Saskki. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. Hi Barb Zarziki. Hi Judy Reed. Thanks Christine. I'm sorry I missed the little detail. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Good catch, Fred. Yeah. Yeah. Just lucky. Just you I'm learning from you all.
It was late at night when I read and those small numbers just don't. Yeah. About about this time I was like I didn't even think of it though. Okay. Item 7.4 contract with instructional empowerment for school year 2025 2026. U Madame President and board members. Um, Cass, if you'll put the um thing up. Um, last month when we talked about uh budgets and whatever um and my proposal for you for uh that whole plan for next year, uh we were at a million dollars, 650,000 from uh instructional improvement and 300,000 350,000 from uh M down from 900,000 in the current budget. Um, and I did indicate at the time that um, given their initial proposal to me that it might be a bit higher. It is only a bit higher. So, uh, Cass, if you'll go to I think it might be page five. I could be wrong.
One more page. There we go. Uh, a million31,000. Uh when I was working on uh the current budget to make the revisions for next month um uh I realized that I had in other lines in M for professional development. I had about $40,000 in other lines that were for professional development that we have not used this year. And uh so I thought it was not unreasonable then to get this bid with this additional 31 32,000 um uh on the million. Um um but other than that uh prior to this page you can see all of the things that are being offered this year. Uh I did some negotiation with them because I said there are some things we have to have and uh but I said we have to come in as close to a million as possible and um uh so up and down and up and down but this is the this is the number that um uh that they that they've given us.
So could we see some of the services that are included in this please? Yes. I just wanted her to get to that because I couldn't remember the number. Um, uh, okay. So, okay. So, uh, under the district leadership services, uh, there are some new things there because, uh, we want to train this MOI coach and, uh, uh, IE has a actually other districts have done this uh, and so they have a a a set of training for, uh, that kind of a coach. And so that's uh part of this district leadership uh team services. And then you can also see in under rigger walk uh certification you see the thing that says district leadership coaching um and the rigger leader uh certification that is for the rigger leader is what they're calling what we're calling the MOI coach. So they've built into the district level uh training and um opportunities for that person to grow and learn as they are also performing these uh tasks.
Um the shared services for principles and the shared services for instructional coaches uh is the next step for them which is continuing to do what they've been doing and being coached by IE people. But part of that coaching is now teaching our principles how to coach, how to work together as teams. So it would be the three elementary coaches and the two uh uh the middle and and junior high teacher principles, I'm sorry, principles and their coaches to to start to work together so that they can do walks in their various campuses. And uh and so you can see that training is eight day eight half days where the the IE coach coaches would come and for instance walk with the principles as a team and teach them how to support each other. It's not so much coaching as supporting because we have good things going on at each campus.
They're not necessarily the same good things going on at each campus. So the opportunity for the principles to learn to um uh to support each other. So three coaches then would go walk or three principles would go walk a site, visit six or seven classrooms, come out and talk about how how that went um and and what they could do to support their people with what experience each one of them has. Same for the coaches. So they're still going to be doing i.e. would still be doing the kinds of things they've been doing for two years. Fewer days. So you can see um if we go to page two, okay, the number of days that they would be here to actually themselves walk and coach principles or um or uh uh our coaches is down from 36 days to 22 in person. uh and still 10 days virtual because the other eight days that bring us back up to closer to 36.