Uh 5.9 is our classroom use agreement with Mid Valley Special Education Cooperative, which we're a part of. 510 is our approval of our food service contract renewal. 511 is the approval of our K8 meal prices, which have to increase. 512 is the award of our copy paper bid for next year. 513 is the approval of our stop-loss loss insurance contract. 514 is the approval of the textbook, the language of composition for Lang. 515 is putting the textbook Every Falling Star on display for our freshman English class. 516 is accepting the official canvas of votes. And finally, 517 is the approval of the consent agenda. Well done, Brad.
So, some people want to Is that what you're saying or you kind of is that what you're saying? Yeah, we can do it in the morning. We just can't do it in the afternoon. Well, I don't know what the answer is other than you just got to keep increasing the pay to traffic. We try to and we'll continue to do that as much as we can. I know like for Melissa example, I mean, she's probably average driving at least two days a week. It feels like has driven, other people have driven. I've driven. Um, well, we appreciate you. I mean, that's reflective. You're retired. We can pick you up. He's picking on that. Well, and the other thing is, you know, by law, um, the other thing that we've thought about in the past, too, is just being able to look at our activity buses to be able to use one of those, but by law, we can't pick up people doortodoor on that.
So hopefully that you know with the new design it will be more accessible um for all different um people whether it's um language and um disabilities. Um our contract with final site also includes a mobile app. So we don't have this operational yet but we're hoping to launch that um somewhat soon. So, there'll be an app that you can put on your phone and it um basically takes the content, it pulls the content from a website and puts it in a nice easy format and like a um for a mobile app for for cell phones in particular. Sometimes when you open up a website on a cell phone and it's small, it's hard to see, but the mobile app um makes it much more accessible and um you know, easy to see and easy to navigate on the go. Um there's also two-way communication feature that we could enable.
I I want to put that on the lease or and that liability. Again, we may um there may be a management company in between that and we may reduce our revenue, but at least we don't have that um overhead or that burden to to be managing something that we're not equipped to manage. So, okay. Thank you so much for being conscious of that. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Moore, for that presentation. This brings us to 7.2 to IHA basic instructional program first read. Mr. Armstrong, you're up. President Wayey, members of the board, tonight we're bringing policy IHA2. And if you scroll all the way down, it's just a couple of adjustments in terms of the instruction that's taking place regarding Holocaust and other genocides as well as uh 9/11 education day. It has been enacted that there are grade level specific pieces to it. So you'll see that it it now states on at least two separate occasions during any grades 7 through 12 and that's both with instruction on Holocaust and the 911 education day.
And so, the fact that that went up 12% when after they had to think about, well, how do I help my peers? How do I learn? How do they learn? How do I use the resources and get comfortable to talk to the other people to maybe help me? That that felt like such a big win for us. Yes. So, just leave. Y leave. We're not We're not going. We're not leaving. So, one of the best one of the best um experiences for us this year in building community in our classes was our New York dance trip. Um this trip was for um 26 students went with us. Um there were freshman through seniors that were on the trip. Um they got to take master classes. They got to go to see a musical. Um we did some sightseeing. They had to navigate the city of New York.
Anyone have any questions? Yes, I do. Uh so 5.9 the mid valley is renting the high school able room. How often do they use that room and is it during school hours or after hours? Yes. Every school day that's their classroom that they they house there. So every school day they don't do things after school or beyond the school summertime too. They're not there. They host uh ESY, the summer programming at a different location. And then 5.12 is the copy paper. Have we ever used that vendor before? Garvey. No, that would be a first time. Uh and then 5.15, this is for freshman English. Yes, freshman English. And then one last one is um just out of curiosity for the personnel report uh the staff hiring of Amy Blakeley. Uh this always says to be determined. Is that because it's going to be a new school year or is that because um our like years service or that one I wish Steve was here.
And so, that would certainly help, too, because it's not just the pay, though. Um it is what you're saying though too it might be convenience of little work if you can do morning and afternoon or not morning for afternoon but the other situation is um you know today is actually u bus driver appreciation day and so I I saw a post um someone put on there that's they're not just a bus driver you know they they counsel kids they they go to different events they do different things but also how much they have to learn to become a bus driver and it's not it's not real easy and it's a lot of time to do all that so it's a big responsibility very big responsibility So we can we can you know you can look at this again um ask questions. It it does leave it open though.
I'm not entirely sure yet if we'll be using that feature or not. We might, but P school, we're moving to P school for our SIS and there's a lot of um communication integrated into that as well. So, more work to be done on on this on the app. Um, and I just want to give a huge shout out, a thank you to our very own Mahia here who um really did the uh the majority of the work. what when we had the old site, we had, if you remember, we had another site that we were working on, we weren't able to transfer that content into this new website. So, Oscar Oscar spent a lot of time doing that. He met with the admin team. Um, he basically um taught himself how to how to do update the website to navigate it and I think his background in IT and programming was a huge benefit in that.
President Wade, do you happen to um know the uh bill number related to these changes? the bill number. I don't I don't have that, but it's under the law that's uh referred to. It's 1571 and then 15710. Okay. I just curious what the bill number was, but I'll figure it out. Thank you. Yeah. May I, Madam President? Yeah. I just I I am in I just want to speak in favor of this change and and uh you know as somebody who in 8th grade taught the Holocaust um and a few years ago when they put genocide down in seventh down to seventh grade I thought oof man you know sometimes we teach kids things that are really really very serious at a very young age. So, I think this allows for a little bit more common sense and discretion um as to when to introduce some of these very sensitive topics.
um and work together. Um and there were two stories of students that we really wanted to share. One of which is Alexandra who is a freshman whose mom let us know that she initially did not want to go. She was scared she would have no friends. She wasn't going to know anybody and that seemed very daunting to her. Um after the trip her mother shared with us that she was inspired by the classes that she took and that more importantly she developed a whole new community of friends um and really loved the experience and was glad she did it after all. Um our second student is Karina and a Karina was a transfer student last year. She's an ML student. this is her senior year and we were walking from our hotel to one of our master classes and she talked with us and just said, you know, I didn't learn to speak English in my English class.
I don't know the answer to that one but we'll get it to you. Okay. Thanks. That's all I got. Anyone else? I have one comment on item 5.11. The uh K through8 meal price increase. I just want to point out that you know the cost of goods and food and services is at on everybody's mind these days and uh that increase is only 10 cents. So that's pretty modest uh compared to where some things are. So I wanted to say good job to our team. I think we're providing good value in that regard. So good job on that. Rob, um had a couple questions about the stop-loss insurance contract. Um is the vendor that we went to, is that our current vendor or is that a new vendor? Yeah, it's the current Josh knows more about that one than I do. So, so yes, that's our current vendor.
That's why I highlighted it there. It does leave it open um that if um the exceptions can happen approval of the superintendent or designate. So um but it's difficult when we don't have all the answers that we need. In other words, we don't have the drivers necessarily. We don't know even in the summertime, you know, who's going to be the new students. You know, is there going to be a situation where how it's going to work. So evolving. So that's that. So the other thing I want to share and I want to I want to share several things first before we I want to share a video coming up here in a little bit. But talking about legislation because that's a big thing that's going on. We really didn't know what was going to happen uh this year, but we knew there was going to be a lot of talk about the budget and about property taxes.
Um, he also trained other people so that they could update the website as well. So, thank you, Oscar. Um, Matt Oliva, he's our new visual design and production coordinator. Matt also once he started, we threw him right into working on the website and he did a lot of the work with um, not only adding some of the content, but making changes to the format um, the images that are on the site and just giving it a much more engaging and professional appearance. Um, also wanted to thank um, our IT department. So Louie Galagani and Jason Rivera, they helped also on the back end so that when we were ready to launch the site, there are certain things that you need to do on the back end. Um, and they made sure that that was completely seamless. So we met with the company together. Um, you know, just basically follow their instructions and we thought it would take a lot longer for the website to switch over and I think it happened in about three to five minutes.
And uh the same thing, you know, um teaching 911 to um sixth graders that didn't live it is it's important, but I don't you know, like you don't I just don't think they should see people leaping to their deaths uh at that grade level, which is kind of people were just all over the place. So, it seems a little bit more reasonable for kids who are ready to accept it. Um, so anyway, I just wanted to speak out in support of that change. Thank you, Mr. Armstrong. This brings us to 8.1, direct district administration to proceed with land, cell, lease, or exchange.
I didn't learn to speak English in my science class or my math class. I learned to speak English in my dance class because it was required of me to interact with my peers talking about dance, which we all were there because we loved it. um but talking about the technique, talking about the composition, but then along the way you just start to talk to your friends and you meet people and you really start to learn and embrace the language. And that was for us like this really wonderful moment for her to share um because it really for her not being from here was a place that she developed community, a sense of belonging and really a love. And so that was like probably one of the best moments of our trip to have a student validate the importance of um what it means to be in our classes.
Okay. And um maybe just a couple high what was the there was eight eight uh vendors looked at what what was the reasons we we went with this one. This one was actually slightly higher in cost than a new one. The difference was though this one looks back six years whereas the other one looks back only 12 months. So if a claim didn't come in that in a medical claims sometimes come in late then we would have been at a loss. So that's why we want this one. And then is it just normal practice to do one-year contracts or is there any advantage to doing multi-year? When it comes to stop-loss generally we're looking at things a year at a time because of the changing nature of our claims. So sometimes we entertain multi-year we have in the past and sometimes we don't. It really depends on what's going on in our claims history and what the issues are.
And so just to give you um a little examples, number one, um there are still 29 House bills for education that are on the tracker. Eight have been signed by the governor. I'm not going to go over all those um but there are eight and Dr. Q and I have looked at those together and because there's some things that we'll have to do with that. Senate bills, there's actually um still 22 Senate bills still on the tracker and there are four that have already been signed by the governor. Another interesting thing, um, over the last 25 years, legislation, um, has, this is the state legislation, has put in place 560 mandates to traditional public schools, K through 12. So, it's just interesting, um, how much has been added to the plate of schools. And so, anyway, that's that. But I do want to play a video.
So we had no issues with doing that. So that was exciting. So um, encourage everyone to take a look at the new We welcome any feedback. Um we will continue to update it um as needed. If you happen to notice anything that maybe is missing or inaccurate information or anything like that, you can certainly reach out to us and and let us know. But we'll continue to update it and um try to make sure that it's um you know, as current and user friendly and visually appealing as possible. Thank you very much. Next up is the calendar. I want you to note that there was a type error. It says June and July. It's May and June calendar.
Any questions or comments before our motion? I motion that the governing board authorize district administration to proceed with drafting a land sale lease or exchange res resolution. I will second that. Thank you, Mr. Glover. All those in favor? I I just want to make sure we're just approving to do one of the following and then the final worded resolution will come back to the board. May 13th. Yeah. Okay. I motion carries 4 to zero. This brings us to 8.2 tenative approval of the 2526 capital outlay budget. Mr. Moore. Yeah, President Wade, members of the board, uh this capital budget is the budget that I presented to the board at the last meeting. Uh with the exception of one change, uh we had added a line item for participatory budgets. Um this is something Mr. Armstrong will come back to the board and share at a further uh meeting on how this will be um I would say pursu or um shared with our schools and then uh this is something Queen Creek does uh with providing a capital budget for schools and their student council or their student groups to come up with school projects.
And so um for us Oh, I have to get for us that was the best thing. These are some more pictures of them. We did have a very I have to share this part. We had a eight hour delay um in which I didn't couldn't find a photo but the dancers were amazing and hung out and there might have been some sidewalk electric sidewalk dancing um which entertained a lot of people and some rehearsals. Got the time. I'm like go rehearse. up, give them space and they will dance. So, we thank you so much for taking time um to give us to share with you.