So we have 30 plus thousand Chromebooks, 5,000 uh laptops and then all the desktop computers that are around the district just for staff alone. So every one of those is a potential entryway into our network. So that's that's why we do these things. questions on that before we move on. As the teacher, I'm going to say it. Um, there have been plenty of times that I've been on Mesa's um, system and there's been times I'll I'll click an email up and I meant the other one or whatever and it's just like I know it instantly and I go, "No, no, no, no." And I try to get it back and then I have to sit through this 20-minute training and I'm like, "That's not even the one I wanted to click." Is there any way we could give the teachers a little grace of just like one because I know Maize is very hard on it and it's fine if not.
Algret for everything he's done for this district. If you guys are unaware, this is an unpaid position. Um, the perks are long hours and lots of lots of discussions um that you're not always on the same page with people. We really appreciate everything that you have done for us and I hope that you move on to better things and are still an active community member. And I would also like to welcome um oh I practiced the name about 20 minutes ago, Miss Miss Vegas to his seat. Um and thank you Miss Wolf for continuing on and uh staying with us as the board. That is it. Have a good evening. All right. Thank you so much. And just to end this public comments, usually we do not comment on comments, but I thought it was necessary to do so regarding the matter. Very quick. On behalf of the board of education, we would like to extend our sincere sincere appreciation to all who have taken the time to share their thoughts, concerns, and perspectives regarding recent administrator administrative matters.
This happened in my classroom um or you were disrespectful to me or you were disrespectful to someone else and I'm going to report it. I put that in educator handle and say this happened today between Rachel and Mickey and this this this this and then it generates a report to Mickey in other areas dean or counselors and he goes in and subdue students but it doesn't specifically highlight that I was harassed or I was this this and this. So this now is more of a I am a I am a person who wants to report that I felt victimized or I felt like this happened or I felt like attacked or I felt this and so that's that's the difference between how we also clarify. Can I ask a follow? Yes. So if educators handbook I guess I'm confused a little confused why we'd have two platforms that are I guess keeping data similar data.
Rocky uh who who was in charge there. Uh it seems that they they're doing the repairs and it it'll be probably a couple of weeks before before they'll be ready for reinspection to be reopened, you know. So, uh that's that. Sermarket had had a similar problem, but they they have complied. They have provided with provided us with everything that we needed and they have cleared the inspections since you know so they they are all set. Uh Starbucks uh have applied to us uh what we called as TT TPSC that's uh time as public health control. So what they're trying to do uh they're right they're going to have the car phase right where they can keep half and half and oat milk uh outside right so they'll they they have submitted us uh documentation for that I can forward that to board but I have reviewed it you know and I spoke to the team this this afternoon as well you know so I guess we should be good to go on that but we we don't need a variance or anything from the board side uh why why I put it here.
See what I have on my mind? Part of the Arizona revised statute is that all school districts have to revise their budget um by May 15th. You can revise your budget as just for some knowledge, you can um revise your budget as many times as you want. It's really not needed, but you do have to revise it by May 15th of every um year. It's just part of the law. So, this is our um revised budget. And then for um our second revised budget in December, um sometimes the Arizona Department of Education tells you you have to revise your budget. So sometimes you have to revise in December. Some people choose to revise in December. Um, also some people choose to revise in September because the auditor general's office does not release the new budget forms in time for us to stay in compliance with the law which says we have to approve the new fiscal year budget by July 15th.
And so just going along with what Eve just said, um we've invested so much in training our teachers and so we really need to invest that same thing into retaining those teachers. Um it's important that we're competitive with other districts. Teachers can go anywhere and so can any staff members. And so we need to make sure that that base salary looks very appealing to other other people who can go other places. Additionally, it it promotes stability and retention. So, we know that when we um hire firstear teachers, really the only thing that we can focus on in their first year of teaching is classroom management and that is not moving students. So, we need to retain those teachers for multiple years in a row so that we can get that flywheel turning. The other piece is that the superintendent will not cause or allow conditions, practices or procedures that are inequitable or insufficient for students.
I get it. I'm just curious because I know it's something that like it gets talked about a lot in the water cooler conversation. So yeah, once you click, you've clicked. Yeah. And so there's no going back. Now I get from the same person every single year. Won't name their name. They're an administrator. Oh man, not me. Dog on it. I forward those to you and say, "Nice try." It's actually no one in the room. Everyone's got their head down back there. Um, but it's the same story every year. Oh, do I got, you know, but so yeah, we try to make light of it, right? Um, it's not bad to go through that every year, but I get I get time, right? It's just people's time for sure. Um, you know, you hear zero trust policy, right? Like that's where technology is today. there's zero trust, which is a hard thing for for me to say when I run it around saying, well, trust is the glue that holds your organization together.
We have received and reviewed numerous communications and understand the depth of emotions and commitments expressed by the members of our community. Please know that we are listening. We value to respect the voices of our families, staff, and community members. Your input plays an essential role in our deliberation and decision-making process. As a board, we are committed to voting in a manner that is fair, equitable, and grounded in what is best for the long-term success and stability of the entire district. Our focus remained on fostering an environment that supports academic excellence, strong leadership, and the well-being of all students and staff across our schools. Thank you again for your continued support and engagement with our district 2011. With that, we do have a motion or we do have a reason to go into close session. As soon as I find that [Music] reason, can I have a motion to go into close session for the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees, specific individual?
So if you see something that comes in on educator's handbook and it's bullying, would you put it in the brim also? Okay. Like educator's handbook is lower lower level stuff. Yeah. educator handbook to to me like I I've seen a couple times more than the educator handbook, but I've seen it where a teacher may share classroom behaviors like a classroom behavior or or hallway behavior. Not that it was a bullying incident solely or harassment, but like two kids almost got into an altercation today. It was student AB versus and student CD. And so I think these two students, this student used foul language today in my class and um and you want to expand on it. Sure. Um sometimes it does go in the educator's handbook and then it kind of trips me to say that this that crosses a different line that falls into a different category category.
I just wanted to bring it to board's attention in case you are in Starbucks and you see that you know so they'll be follow they'll be doing that. Uh Dr. G go ahead. So I'm assuming that that Starbucks has not had cream and that sort of thing out yet. So right now sir they are doing it.
So they used to just make us wait, make us wait, make us wait, but there's deadlines that have to be met and they're in statute and there's no way to get around them. So, in the past couple years, instead of making us wait until the last minute and have you guys have to have an extra board meeting and all these extra meetings, um they've just decided to release the old forms. So, you adopt the new budget on the old forms and then you need to revise either you can choose to do it in September. Um, you don't have to, but most people decide to just do the revision in December, um, just so they have it on the new forms for the May revision, but you can wait until May to put it on the new forms as well. Um, it's just up to the school district.
So speaking about um the 2% raises for all employees. So I spoke about teachers. However, we know that it's it's critical to create conditions that are equitable for students. So we need to have employees that speak students home languages. We need to have bus drivers to get students to and from schools. We need to have um our cafeteria staff to make sure our te our students have full bellies so that they can learn. Additionally, um we recognize the rising costs of everything from housing to rent to everyday groceries. So, we know that not only teachers, many employees, including myself, have multiple jobs in addition to just this job so that we can pay our bills. And if we're able to reduce the amount of Uber Eat shifts we have to do or extra tutoring sessions we have to do, then that allows us to go home, get a full night rest, plan for the next day of teaching, make sure that our papers are graded, make sure that we are not getting sick so we have to take days off of school and we're able to be here for the most important job we have, which is our students.
And then on the other hand, I'm saying we don't trust you, right? Because we can't really trust anybody because we've all clicked on stuff ourselves that was probably not real, right? So, so we try to do our best and explain so people understand. But yes, I I totally understand where you're coming from. Yeah. And I'll just I'll just add to that. I mean, I think our goal is is to for the end users to slow down. We know at the end of the day, they've got 25 emails they got to go through and they're clicking through. Um, just slow down and think about it as you're going through your emails. You know, it's just a simple uh practice, but it's efficient. So, I I do have a question about that. if they click on an email that is a fishing email and then they get that training.
So moved by Nelson, second by Bill. Any questions or comments? If not, we are in close session with a roll. Roll call. I'm really trying to rush this, right? Okay. Roll call, please. Mr. Albert, I. Mr. Gygo is an I. Mr. Swallish. Hi. Miss Zit Stumbris. I Miss Wolffel. I Dr. Hall. I President Brown. All right, we're now in close session. We should be in close session. It's going to be relatively quick. Maybe about 15 minutes. No longer. His doesn't work. I think the battery's out. That's okay. one right here. There's two buttons here. It says mute that one. That's not That's his This is the screen went out. It's working. That's working. Most likely. Screen went out. Screen went out for some reason. Weird. Item six, recognition. Yes. Thank you public for being patient so patient with us. Yeah. So uh number following our agenda number six recognition of outgoing board member by Dr.
Um and um the other thing is it it can be anyone putting it in on any kid in the building. Um so if they see something at recess like Wayne interacted or not interacted, resolve some a conflict between a couple kids. Um he interviewed them. He did restorative justice with them. He put it all in educator's handbook, what he did with him and um what happened, but he might not know that like this kid also had these five other things going on, but you see that. And so now it's a whole other story. You you have to click on a kid's name, right? So you can when that it'll come to me in an email that day. I have to click in and it won't won't let me ignore it. Um I have to click in and it will say how many office referrals and but in the small school I know that.
So what they do currently that uh that half and half and oat milk that they do it in US stores right the they they take temperature of of the product every 1 hour and document it now if the temperature goes over 41 they discard it directly so with this DPC what we call as time as public health control they won't be doing that procedure you know so uh that's what it's it's Again this this this was a change in in the most code that we we at the state level adopted in 2018 2019 uh earlier there was a requirement that this need to be under variance right that the board have to grant a variance but it's not anymore you know so but uh how it's written in the merged food court that they still need to get it approved by the regulatory authority in Ashland's case it's the board of health and they have submitted to us you know the procedures for this TPSC and I have reviewed it you know so we should be good good to go and I I will forward it to the board as well you know just to look at it and if you have any questions please let me know Raj just before we go any further can I ask can we just go back to Dollar Tree real quick um have they supplied to you the food destruction documentation yet chief there was a call I guess yesterday right Laura uh So they they had a clarifying question, but they are they're going to be providing it to us, you know. So So just so the board knows, when something like this happens and they have to dispose of all of the food that is in the store, they're required to submit to the health director an actual destruction report from a company to show that that food was disposed of.
I would recommend that moving forward, you just like we've been doing, revise in December, get it on the new forms, um, with all the new weights and all of that, just so it's up to date for the May revision. All right. So, um, our student population did not change very much. We're only down 7.9. And just an explanation, the reason there's decimals is because they're not counting students. We're counting FTE, full-time equivalency in our district. So, we have students that are all at different um, enrollment um, percentages. And so, that's why you have those percentages. We don't really have We didn't really lose 7.9 students. We we lost 7.9 FTE. I can say since I've been at Blige, we really have slowed down on our enrollment loss. So, I have I feel like we're kind of at a a pretty good point with our declining enrollment.
And then finally, um, approving a 2% raise for all employees would really send a message to everyone that while we are definitely focused on our goals and that is our main priority, we were we are all in this together. And so we are a team and kind of I always quote this book that I read um, keep the adults happy so they don't eat the kids. We need to make sure that we are keeping everyone moving in the same direction and that motivation and morale um increase will be helpful. Thank you. Good evening. Um so the recommendation that we're proposing is that school psychologists will receive a base salary increase of $15,000 in lie of their 15,000 market stipen demand that they're already receiving. Um it sounds a little bit tricky but basically that and that psychologist will not be grouped with other certified staff for the purposes of negotiated races.
Um, is there do they have to do it right there in that 20 minutes or they can come back to it later and do the training? Do we leave it open for the whole school? And usually it's an attachment in the email. Correct. Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes. Yeah. That they're clicking on. Okay. But to answer your question, no, they don't have to do it right in there. They have the entire, you know. Yeah. Okay. Just because sometimes you don't have 20 minutes to write it that Of course. Of course. Yeah, we would never do that. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. Uh people have used my well my name, not my email address to ask for gift cards and Yeah. Yeah. So, if anybody out there, send them down this way, not not to that guy. Yeah. We want you to call. We want people to ask email.
Coglin. Well it is definitely with bittersweet uh comments tonight that we say farewell to uh Mr. Nelson Alrich. You have served this board extremely well. Um you started here in 2017. Is that correct? Correct. uh he was vice president in 2017 to 2019. He was a school board president from 2019 to 23 2023 and you brought us through co as I recall and I'm sure as you're sitting here tonight you're thinking about all the things that this board has accomplished when you were when you were sitting on this board and I've got just a few of them here. Uh, we improved the HVAC to add air conditioning to all elementary buildings. We raised the dome and the sixth grade center. Relocated buildings and grounds. Built out bridges wing at the high school. Prepared MEC building for sale. Relocated district offices. Approved construction of new athletic fields for the high school.