So the first piece where it says the committee will review the surveys um annually scheduled annually um is what the statutory language is as the fact that it says they'll be administered bianually. So he thinks like you know bad grammar that it's just yeah poorly written uh legislation. It's not, but he believes that the intent certainly was. And these have been reviewed um by Tom Mooney and Shipment and Goodwin as well as Cabe as well as CAPS. Um and I know like there were some issues brought up by Tom and by CAPS like this form which is why and in the third form more so, but um which is why there was still some question about this session. Will they address any of that? And it doesn't seem like they're going to. They have other issues that they're focused on. But um I know that uh Tom Mooney who who literally wrote the Connecticut law uh education law book um has reviewed this and uh I said that so you know what I just said was we when we run into real sticky ones like are we going to label this assault that we're better off calling the attorney for one hour and then paying for 10 hours later.
Um, what my second grader was able to see on that curriculum, and once again, this was not Daart. So, um I think we should probably in um I'm not going to say internally, but um I think the the new board members should be kind of um I guess we can say we we should be educated a little bit more on what curriculum we're using. I guess that's a proper way to say it. And then when when I say educated is you know give us the chance to ask more questions with either the you know assistant cabinet's members um just to make sure that we feel comfortable going forward and you know approving stuff like this. Um Matt if I could Dr. Cardo you and I had talked about having a study session around curriculum something similar to what we had done in the past like a working uh study session as we you know Dr.
Hearing none. Um can I get a motion to approve Cara Casten as the vice president of the board of education of Community High School District 99? Somebody needs to move. Oh, so move. Chris moves. We don't need a second. We don't need a second. We don't need a second on these. A weird one. Okay. All right. Julie Chris moves. Okay. Thank you. Chris Espinosa. I. April Finnen. I. Don Rener. I. Michael Riskey. I. Eric Caston. I. Katie Courtney. I. And Ken Dawson. I. All right. Motion carries. And then can I get a nomination from the floor for the office of secretary? I nominate Julie Idok. Any other nominations?
We are on the right road in no small part to your leadership. Thank you. You deserve all the flowers. I wrote that before. And a welldeserved rest. Thank you to all the go all four of you. I hope our paths will continue to intersect as I know you will continue to be supporters and advocates for the work and success of SC 308. Uh you will be missed. Um best wishes to all and thank you. And then to our incoming board members, just a few words. I've taken the last couple weeks to get to know you a little bit as we embark on this journey together as uh helping to lead district 308. I believe we will do great things together. I look forward to working with you all as we continue the legacy of the outgoing board. The future of SDO3 SD 308 is indeed bright.
We're going to continue that work into next year, but it's really exciting work and um something that we want to make sure we do the right way. um when you're talking about a playground, you're talking about a significant amount of money. And so we just want to make sure that whatever we do create at the Quinn School is something that makes sense for our students and also is what we envision at the end. So that's going to be exciting as we move into next year. Um collaborating again with district leaders and school stakeholders to develop a comprehensive plan when it comes to our building needs at Quinn School. um their impact on student achievement um as well as solutions. So again, ensuring that the budget reflects the needs of the building and supports our school improvement plan and the district strategic plan and then creating a meeting schedule.
And his response was, I had Tom Mooney tell me that several times that, you know, when you run into something like you do sometimes, um, it's not all the time, but sometimes. And we just kind of was like, before you fill it out, oh yeah, put put ink on it like that. Yeah. Let's do this in pencil before we uh figure out what we're going to do. So, that's that's the gist of what we're supposed to adopt. And given the frequency with which this law has changed in the last decade, don't be shocked if you know we're sitting here next year processing version 2.0 of this edition. Any other questions that I can phone a friend on or we can just discuss? You know, my concern was that they gave us a list of definitions, but nothing about assault, physical violence, and you know, it's a very open ending.
side presented on curriculum to the former board. Um I know that you and I had talked about setting a date for that. Did you have a date in mind? I thought we had talked about one coming up. Madam President, um we do not have a date set yet. We're looking at sometime probably at the beginning of the year. Okay. Um to start with that, we did discuss some of this recently. Um, we need to start back and have an understanding of state standards, um, and what those state standards say and how the state of Arizona holds us accountable for what kids learn. Um, I think there's sometimes a misconception, and I'm not saying with this board, just people in general, that we buy an HMH textbook and that's our curriculum. The textbook is not the curriculum. Um, the textbook is the piece that we use.
Hearing none. Um, that was a nomination. Can I get a motion to approve Julie Naidk as the secretary of the board of education of Community High School District 99? So moved. Ken moved. Thank you. Ken Dawson. I. Mr. Espinosa. I. April Finn. Hi. Don Rener. I. Michael Riskey. Hi. Cara Castton. Hi. and Katie Courtourtney. I motion carries. Okay. Um item number five, um Julie, do we have any visitors? No, sir. Okay. Item number six, establish a meeting dates and times. Um can I get a motion from the board of education to approve the 2025 2026 proposed board of education meeting dates and times? So moved. Carrie moves. Second. Ken. Casten. Hi Ken Dawson. Hi Miss Espininoza. I April Finnen. Hi Don Rener. Hi Michael Riskey. Hi. And Katie Courtney. Hi. Thank you. Motion carries. Item number seven, appointment of board committees and liaison. Um so we have various committees as board members.
[Applause] I have nothing written or prepared, nor can I match the eloquence of what everyone has said so far. Um, what I do want to say is Jen, Jared, Latana, and Eugene, there are small gifts on your desk that are wrapped in District 308 colors. So, you will see the blue, the silver, and the orange. Um, those gifts are from Amy and Dominic and myself. Um just as a small token of our appreciation for everything that you have done for us over the past couple years. Um we have as everyone has said we are on a great path and it's because of your help, your strength, your guidance uh that we have gotten that way and we hope to continue that. And um again, thank you so much. And to our student ambassadors, um again, you two, boy, talk about the future looking bright. I mean, you know, um I can't even remember like like I can't even remember when I was your age being that right being that intelligent, being that involved.
Um we have been doing that this year again with myself and and Mrs. heart, who's amazing, um to ensure that we're reviewing the school budget and looking at our line items and making sure that we're um efficiently planning and making sure that there's there's anything unforeseen or anything that comes up, we have what we need in our budget. So again, big thank you to Mrs. Hart as well. Terrific.
I think that's worth tracking down with the attorney to say, you know, under what, you know, when we'll I think we'll try and prioritize that for our training uh over the summer because pretty much do this annually. Um, I haven't done it in a couple years because of the shifts, but um, I think it's fair to say, explain to me under what conditions we would be identifying something as an assault. Um, because I can't verify something verified and I can think of one to be maybe, you know, in the last few years. And how's that different from physical violence, right? Yeah. So, I mean, even if you observe something that looks like assault, like someone filmed a fight at school, it doesn't become assault till someone presses charges, right? Well, I mean, if you're if you're if you're operating on the um on the basis that only only assault only a police officer could identify assault.
It's the vehicle we use to teach the kid the state standards. So, I think we're going to back up and start with the state standards, take a look at those, see how that is, how we map to those state standards, and how we use pieces of different curriculum to teach those state standards. So, um I do have that planned. We have talked about that. Um, and we will do that probably in the beginning of the new year because we have a lot of summer training come up and they're focusing our curriculum people are focusing on all that summer training right now. So, we will definitely do that in the near future. Didn't we talk about um having a discussion on like uh I think it was Saxon math or the Spalding that that will be part of it. Yes. So again, Saxon is just a vehicle.
Um I'm going to reach out to each of you individually um about assigning those committees um to each of you. Uh I'm not prepared to do that as of yet. I've had some initial and preliminary discussions, but I'd like to talk to some of you who I've not yet had discussions about what committees you'd be interested in. Um, so in the interim between tonight's board meeting and probably the next board meeting, I'll be reaching out to each of you individually and then we'll uh collectively assign uh each of you to the committees. Okay. Item number eight. I'll turn this over to you, Dr. The All right. Before we get started, welcome to our new board members and welcome to the to all to a new board uh of education group. Congratulations, Don and Cara, and your positions as officers. I look forward to working alongside of you uh in the the coming weeks and months and years.
And I was a dumb kid just doing. But um but yeah, you you the two of you um did an exemplary job. So I mean you should be so proud of yourself and and continued success and again um I won't say on behalf of the three of us because we can each do that. Um on behalf of me you won't say that. Oh, all right. Whatever. Anyway, um again, um just thank you for everything that that you've done. We uh I truly appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks. [Applause] I basically thank you and and yeah, we had a nice discussion a couple weeks ago and oh my god, yeah, I mean there's going to be so much coming from these two. It's just amazing. Um I I had nothing prepared, but uh yeah, these last two, three years, you know, working with you guys. Um uh a lot of lot of changes.
Does anybody have any questions? I have two. Sure. Um, how does how do you select the uh institutional leadership team? How many people do you have on that? So, we don't have an ILT at this time. So, that's something that we will be doing for the fall. Um, I think first and foremost asking for volunteers. You know, we want to definitely embed leadership in our our educators and we would love to hear everyone's voice. Of course, you can't have everyone at the table, but hopefully something that sparks an interest knowing that we're going to have multiple committees next year that we haven't had before. So, maybe somebody would want to be on the ILT, somebody would want to be on the SIP team, um, somebody would want to join. You know, we have still our PBIS committee and our playground committee, but just hoping that it's of interest and that it's something that they feel strongly about that they would want to join in helping us kind of grow Quinn and make sure that it's a place that we all want to be.
You know, for me, I'm going to call it a fight. I'm gonna call it an attack maybe. Yeah. Um, you know, I I don't know. I think that's probably worth asking the attorney given that it's on some police action somewhere. Given that it's on our form for next year and we do refer to the police sometimes um different things, drugs, weapons, alcohol. They're just that it's automatically. Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah. I think I think they're the only ones that can verify it being an assault. Yeah. So, we'll follow up with that for the training piece. Um, you know, what constitutes assault? [Music] Well, and the physical violence because the physical violence like pushing each other is like a little shoving match. Yeah. Pushed into a locker. Is that physical violence? You know what I mean? Like is that an assault? You heard his back when he hit the hit the locker, right?
It doesn't address our state standards. Um, Saxon is a company that prints materials. So, there are pieces of Saxon that fits um with state standards and there's pieces in Saxon they don't cover at all. So, again, you have to go find those other supplemental pieces that teach those state standards because Saxon does not address that. So that in those curriculum maps that we talk about um as our new people come forward um we will start laying that whole system out so we can get a good picture of okay what does this really mean? I know we talk about it all the time. We talk about it because it's our everyday life and we need to step back and slow that process down and lay it all out so everybody has an understanding of what this entails. I say it takes a long time and we need to get to the why it takes a long time.
So, uh thank you for giving of yourselves and taking this volunteer unpaid position on. And as you heard from Terry, uh you know, your families are also committing to that commitment as well. I thank them, uh for allowing you to spend time supporting the students, staff, and families of our district. So, with that, uh I'm going to turn this over. Do you want the clicker, Ryan? Oh, yes. I will turn this over uh to Ryan Doherty, our director of student experiences uh to go into the uh survey that was given around athletics and activities. Hi, my name is Ryan Dhy. I'm director of student experiences. If I haven't met you, uh my nieces went through North. Um my parents live in town. I work for the district, so I'm triply invested. Um so you're also going to see a lot of me. Um I I'm told that I can be verbose and so I'm going to try to move it along because I know you have a long agenda tonight.
Um it's I'm going to I'm going to miss you guys. It's just a whole lot. Um I don't know. It's going to take a little bit to get adjusted to, you know, to serving without you. Um that much I know for sure. Um but I already told you I'm going to be calling. So we are here. We're here for you. So you say that now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I said I'm going to be calling you in a lot. I was telling your husband. Sorry. I gota keep you keep you occupied. Okay. Thank you. All right. Um Oh, yeah. You want to say something first? Go ahead. We'll try to cry. Okay. I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt thank you to each of you. Your dedication to our school and your commitment to creating a supportive, rightful presence environment have had a profound impact on not just me and hope, but for each and every one of your students.
Great. My second question you've referred to is what is SIP? The school improvement plan. Oh, okay. Yes. So, really looking at our school improvement plan. That's okay. No, we have so many acronyms in this. Yeah. So, yeah. So, really looking at our school improvement plan a few times a year and just making sure that what we're talking about this evening is something that we're continuing to do and tweaking as needed. Great. Thank you. You're so welcome. Anybody else? I similar to um when Melissa was here um and Rick, I just it's really beautiful how the strategic plan is woven within every aspect. Um and just from a lens of recognizing the unique needs of students and teachers, right? And having some of that data to help support decisions that are made is is wonderful. Um I I don't really have anything. just look forward to hearing as this rolls out.