And that's what you see on the screen right here. Um, while you read these or view these, one concrete example of how, you know, our district-wide one concrete example of how we're embedding these into instruction is our district-wide Minecraft experience. And this experience was funded solely through the community schools grant. So through the community schools partnership program, we were able to partner with uh Minecraft Education directly and have our whole school district built out, right? And I know uh our ask the president Jeff Morgan mentioned that Becky Pringle is taking us on the national and international stage. Well, so is this because this is available to everybody around the world. So back to the script. Sorry. Um, so the AUHSD reinventing communities experience invites students to engage in a transformative journey where they explore and redesign their communities through the lens of sustainability and climate action.
Uh it was such a joy uh to spend it and you know I don't know why it's always windy on that international children's day. Um but I came ready this time. Um then I had the honor of going to um Vanguard for Cinco de Mayo. Um it was interesting. Uh I have never I don't understand the language but I understand the language of love. Uh, and so when I showed up in that room and I had my little Cinco de Maya dress, um, I felt so at home that when the music started that was played by students from, um, Granite Hills High School, uh, that came and played the the like a mariachi, uh, I couldn't help myself. I got up to dance. I figured, you know, well, I'm already here. I might as well have fun. Uh, but I have to say thank you so much to um the staff and the parents of of um uh Vanguard um because that that was an interesting event.
Any questions? All those in favor? I thank you. J6, Miss Rey. Good evening, President Holt, Vice President Mccronis, members of the board, Dr. administrator, members of senior staff, and our inperson and virtual audience. The Morirana Unified School District has a long-standing partnership with the University of Arizona to ensure that qualifying high school students have access to several dual enrollment classes courses. If so, the purpose of tonight's uh item is to reestablish the intergovernmental agreement between the University of Arizona and the Arizona Board of Regions and the and Moran Unified School District. If approved, students in Moran Unified School District that qualify would have access to engineering 102, Introduction to Engineering, as well as NCB 101 and 102, Topics and Techniques in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Is there a motion? I move that the governing board approve the IG with the Arizona Board of Regions on behalf of the University of Arizona.
Um that is what this number is that total number uh 375,000 and then um just the other part of our strategy is um in the fall when we do get a free cash uh number we do take a portion of that and put it in the OPEC trust. And I will just say it's been a successful strategy for us. Uh when we started this about a decade ago, we had zero uh money set aside for this long-term liability. And we're now up to um over $8 million. Um more importantly, our funded ratio, which is what percentage of our liability do we have actually have funds set aside for, has gone from zero 10 years ago to 12% now. So, uh, slowly but surely, our strategy is is making strides and, um, we would just like to continue that with this article to allow discussion. I'll enter a motion.
Yeah. What just what that is, what it means, why is it there? Um that would that would help. Well, and I think if maybe it's something in the uh comments to mass housing because I as much as we were disappointed with the response, I think whatever we say it does get looked at and I don't know they probably have a hundred of these a week. I don't know. Um and I could see that they don't look at it to that detail. So, if we even don't find, I think it's probably worth mentioning in our comments. If we don't find out what it's for, just say it's on top of an easement, then I mean, yeah, that that there there might be more to that and there might not, right? Yeah, DPW sounds like a good first stop with that that they might know, you know, what that what it could possibly relate to.
We have a very complicated matrix that we refer to every week. Um, so that every period at some point during the week, we have a teacher available to work one-on-one with students um that we've identified as needing these additional interventions. Um, they is always it is always occurring during a student's study hall. They are not being pulled from other classes. they're not full elective courses. Um it's this is in lie of their regularly scheduled study hall period so that they're not missing additional academic time. Um we work with our classroom teacher who's been tagged as the interventionist for that period to talk about what would be the appropriate supports and interventions, how to work with the student, what type of data to be collecting. Um and then our last step is progress monitoring. We meet currently weekly um to discuss the students that are receiving these supports as a team with our MTSS providers.
Using Minecraft education, students here in the AUHSD and around the world are introduced to the community schools approach and embark on a creative and collaborative adventure visiting key landmarks within the Anaheim Union High School District and working with non-playable characters or NPCs to understand local challenges challenges. Um, the goal is to design solutions that address real world issues such as renewable energy, food security, water conservation, and community health. Students will build sustainable environments, innovative solutions, and contribute to a future where communities are more resilient, equitable, and environmentally friendly. This immersive experience empowers students to become active change makers, creating a better tomorrow, while learning valuable skills in problem solving, collaboration, and community building. So think of this experience as a soapbox speech but delivered and created in an innovative way uh that capitalizes on students funds of knowledge and students at the end of it students submit a screencast recording of their creation narrating the video walking the vid u the viewer through their thought process and how their build creates a more healthy and sustainable community.
And then talking about Vanguard, I went back um to their um uh what do they call in a night of the arts at Vanguard um and I actually found myself bidding against Mr. Edmier. Um, there were baskets there and there were baskets that I wanted and he bid $75 and I bid more and and we were just doing the battle of who has more money in their pocket. After a while, I stopped because I didn't have that kind of money. But so I managed to lose one one of the baskets, but I managed to win one. So I felt felt at home uh there. Then I went to Phoenix Academy and I saw Beauty and the Beast. Um what a marvelous experience to see how those children were changing the stage and the concert was still going on. I I thought wow um this is impressive.
Is there a second? Second. Any questions? I do have some some questions. So, um, do we have an engineering program at either one of the high schools? This engineering program is currently offered at Mountain View High School. Okay. And, uh, the bioscience biotech program. We are hoping to add that in the near future at Mountain View High School as well as Morirana High School. I just have a I just have a quick question. If they take this class, can they use it as a transfer credit to any or ASU instate universities? Yes, they can. Perfect.
The town transfer the sum of $375,000 from OPED contribution account 019155179 to the OPED trust account 881000-49710. Do I have such a motion? Is there any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move to an immediate vote. This will require a simple majority. All those in favor, please raise your cards. Thank you. And opposed. That passes unanimously. Article six, annual consent article for general items to see if the town will vote. the following consent articles which I shall not read in their entirety. One, grant program authorization. Two, road contracts. Three, contracts in excess of three years. Four, lease purchase agreements. Five, revolving funds. Six, grant easements. The school committee recommends the town approve article 5 as set forth in the warrant and set the maximum amount may be spent on revolving funds in subsection five of article 5. Given the routine nature of the items contained within consent articles, they are normally voted without discussion.
[Music] So, okay. Does that seem uh Yes. So if we can get those if we can get those component parts in a draft form for our meeting in two weeks um then we can we can talk about it then and we still have you know five days say to um massage it a little bit get get feedback from new board members and um and uh and get it to the state. So, so just to review, uh, Alvaro is going to get us the the letters so that we can all kind of grab our section and then bring it together. I I still would caution us. I know we don't have a planner now shortly. Um, but I would still caution the three of us, Trisha, Deepa, Anna, in sending things to each other kind of outside of a meeting. I I would feel much more comfortable to avoid open meeting law violations if we bring our input to the next meeting and just put it together right there in a word document almost like a working meeting.
Um we're looking at the data. We're seeing what trends we're seeing and determining are the interventions successful? Do we need to tweak anything? Do we need to decrease the frequency of the sessions? Do we need to increase it? Um so that's kind of our general format that we follow for our students. So for this year, seeing as this was our first year taking on MTFS, Leah and I, uh we picked a couple focus areas really to to tackle and kind of put all our efforts into. Um so math skills historically are skills that students just tend to struggle with. Um so math and we had the benefit, as Leah said, of having two math teachers available to provide these supports. Um so we really focused on math skills for um a few of our students. Um again we used um analysis of different assessment data, their course grades, historical grades and other previous math courses um feedback from our math teachers.
Um I had one student uh Manny and if he's watching hi Manny told him about this uh he created a really cool like garden in his community. So basically in this world you can access any region of the AUHSD on the district map and he happens to go to south. So he accessed the south Catella region and the community assets in this area are the Ponderosa Family Resource Center as well as Little People's Park and so what he built was a massive garden because he believed in you know we need a community garden and what that board says is because it's one thing to build something in Minecraft but you have to tie in the uh learning to like a written component as well in my class. So and he wrote the build around here is a community garden. The purpose and importance of the garden is to connect the community together and to provide local produce to the community to foster healthy eating habits.
Um had the opportunity to go to uh San Bernino County uh at the California Theater of the Performing Arts to see our students from Saninbul Academy, Granite Hills High School. I think there were the two schools that performed and to see how they were they stacked up with students all over the the county and it was an impressive experience to see these kids actually performing um the best that they have to offer. Um and then to cap it up um I went to um um Mariana um yesterday for the picnic. Oh my goodness. Um, I don't think I can ever go anywhere and behave myself. Um, I got there and I couldn't I s, you know, I was standing with the principal. I thought maybe I should be proper and behave myself, but the smell of popcorn was too inviting. So, I went and I got my popcorn and found myself just shoving it in my mouth as if I'd not seen food forever.
Any questions more? No. Perfect. All those in favor? I. Thank you. Next item is J7 to conduct an executive session pursuant to ARS 38-431.0385 for ser for purpose of consulting with or instructing the board's representative regarding negotiations. Is there a second or a motion? I apologize. I move that the governing board conduct an executive session pursuant to ARS 38-431.03A5 for the purpose of consulting with andor instructing the board's representative regarding negotiations. Is there a second? Second. I know we won't see probably any of you afterwards. So, good night and thank you all for coming. Uh, all those in favor I I can do this.
As such, I will ask for a motion and then move directly to a vote. The motion I will ask for, sorry, that the town approve article six is set forth the warrant and set the maximum amount that may be spent on revolving funds to subcept section five of article 6 as follows. And none of these numbers have changed since last year. Senior program revolving $25,000. Town building rental $75,000. Town of Hollist animal control revolving $114,000. Library materials replacement $5,000. Hazardous waste revolving $10,000. Sidewalk construction fund, $50,000. Guidance revolving fund, $50,000. Food inspection program, $20,000. Electrical inspections and gas inspection revolving fund, $150,000. Tobacco problem program revolving, 10,000. Ambulance revolving 900,000 recreation revolving 500,000 vaccination clinic revolving $30,000. All those in this will require twothirds maj majority due to easements. We'll start with card count. All those in favor please raise your cards. Thank you. Opposed.
It makes me nervous because it's unusual from in the past when we've done this we have forwarded our stuff to Peter. He would put it together and maybe work with one of us so that there would not be a problem. So, I feel like it's a little tricky if the three of us are going to start sending emails to each other without it being on the public record. You know, I'll I'll confirm with Lisa about that, but last time what we did actually is um you know, we worked in um small, you know, each of us did a section and we put the section together and we swapped sections and we edit each other's sections. Um I I read through the sever several times editing it. So I don't think it's something that like it's not a matter that we vote on before the board.
Um identified where the skill gap was developed a plan for those students um have had our math teachers working with them throughout the course of the year and are monitoring their progress on a weekly basis. Um the other large area that we decided to focus on was um executive functioning skills. So these are the skills needed to help you succeed at everything in life, whether it's time management, organization, planning. Um, and this came about as we were analyzing that DF grade report. Um, as we dug deeper into the data, we found that the common trend was that most of these students weren't performing poorly in classes due to lack of ability, but lack of turning in materials or turning in assignments. So we had um an issue with work completion. Um, so we identified that fairly early on in the school year and decided this we think is a broader focus area that not only through our tier one interventions do we need to look at, but what can we do for some of these students who just even with those tier one interventions are still struggling with work completion.
This connects to my vision of a thriving community because the garden focuses on physical health for everybody. This addresses the unique strengths in the garden because it can help reduce the cost of good healthy food. A garden helps reduce the distance food travels so it reduces emissions from transportation and improves local air qualities. Seventh grader. So, with that, u um I do invite everybody in here and everybody watching. On March 19th, student work from across the district will be showcased and reviewed May May 19th, sorry. Yeah, we're in we're May uh showcased and reviewed at the city of Anaheim's inaugural esports event by an esteemed panel of judges consisting of three city council members, the lifeboat team, who the community schools district steering committee partnered with to build out this world, uh as well as a teacher leader. Um while there will be a rewards and a prize and presenting but you know given to our students who uh who participate in this challenge, the real prize is presenting to an authentic audience that could lead to real achievable change within their community.
But, I had such a great time to see how the parents were all engaged. I just wish that all of the schools will spread spread these things out so that we I can capture as much as I can. I just had very little time and they are all within the same window 5:00 to 7:00. So you have to do the running up and down. Um to to wrap it up um of course congratulations to the teachers who are teachers in our district but I you have to know that even the administrators in our district are teachers. Even the parents in our district are teachers. Even even the the classified staff, they are teachers. But especially those who possess that credential to be teachers, uh I say congratulations for for serving us as much as you do and for um giving of yourselves regardless of how you personally feel.