So I hope you guys can be there. Um, and I just wanted to thank Jodyie and her group of students and staff that came out to um, the Wolf Creek Nature Trails. I talked about it at the April meeting. They came out. We had 152 students. Um we had a huge cleanup birthday morning out there. We've gotten lots of positive feedback from um community members and the staff members at Wolf Creek and it spurred more interest and more um interest and future involving out there. So, and it was a great day. You know, we ended the day with scratch. So, it was great. So, and uh the funny part is that if you were in Mo'Nique's group, Selena was more the the manager over at Eversoft thing. Um I'm going down and taking pictures cuz that's what I do. And uh Nick's like, "Where are you guys at?
Yeah, we're going to be looking at the same amount or more probably. And that was the pitch back then kind of why it was such a good deal because we wouldn't have to do all those things. So I'm just curious now if it's still a good deal. if it, you know, for going from six and again that would be every other year. That'd be every other year. So we'd have 6,500 one year and then estimate, you know, so lock into that lease for two years instead of the year, right? Which So I just wanted to make sure that that we're all on board with moving forward because last year this was on the June meeting, correct? I think I think it was on the June meeting when you guys okay the the next lease for the lease or the contract for Bush. I didn't want us to move forward with the gym for gonna have to get that guy booked.
Any questions? Keep up the good work. All right. Oh, look at you. You're ready. You just have to tell them when you want them to advance. All right, I'll do this. Hello, Madam President, board. Everybody, Daniel's book. Um, oh, this is wobbly. Okay. So, I'm here to It got a lot of action. I know it did. Okay. So, I'm here to talk about our special education department in Chino Valley. And I try to put a lot of thought into giving you a glimpse of our world and then sharing at the very end some really wonderful things that we do. Well, the whole thing is wonderful things, but anyway. Okay. Go ahead. All right. So, alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much. Helen Keller. So the key to special education seriously is teamwork. It goes from our superintendent, our principles, our parapros, our transportation.
Uh sometimes we've had that be part of the conversation as well too. Interesting. I mean I honestly can't remember why I put that there. Maybe I was just curious and I think I might have had the same concern about the medical marijuana thing or something is maybe where my mind was at. But now I can't remember because it's been a minute. Do we want to resolve it? Do you want us Should we What should we have more discussion about? Oh, no. No. I'm good. I I'm sorry, but that's very informative. Yeah. Um, okay. So, then these two things that you brought up, uh, we don't have a drug abuse prevention program. Um, and so this is just like outdated. I think this is like from our dare years. I'd like to throw out that drug abuse prevention programs they found statistically do not show that they have like a great um like success rate or impact on it.
Motion second. Tiffany, yes. Yes. Johnson. Yes. Yes. Yes. Can I bring Nicole up for a minute to share with you a little about the middle school process? Sure. Nicole Stra, uh, our curriculum teaching learning coordinator. Um, she's taken our middle school through the same process. We're one month behind. Um, and I was going to let her share a little bit how we landed, where we did. Hi everyone. Um, so similar process as the HMH adoption. We had a committee made up of EL sped and then grade level teachers. We looked at a variety of different resources, did a rubric with that, scored it, brought in the vendors to come and present to us. At that time, we were hoping to pair down to two resources, but the team really liked all three. So, we went through um reviewing three different products and piloting three, which is why we're bringing the decision a month later because we needed that extra time to look at all three resources.
And what's awesome about working inside the school is sometimes a PD has some cynical side to it, but you go into that school and it's always this positive environment. So it's a really breath of fresh air when officers are assigned to schools. It's really kind of a cool thing. I I really wish every officer had the chance to to to have that experience. Um, but we know that we don't just necessarily send any police officer inside the school. We're looking for specific qualities for to have the best effectiveness to to to have the best outcome when we have an officer in the school. And so, while we're looking for somebody that's highly trained, I'm looking for somebody that's patient, that's highly uh specialized in deescalation skills, um that's outgoing, that's a huge one. To be able to have the willingness to make those uh positive interactions, make friends, build that trust and amongst the school community, and that that's students and staff alike.
So our lunch menus will no longer be online. you will go to our website and they'll re it'll have a redirect and um to healthy menus and you just click whatever school you want and you can parents will be able to hover over every item and see the nutritional value and the calories and everything. So I've also been working on that. So we'll see. Well, real quick, I'm not a programmer, but before we vote on these, can you just go over the what the new prices are going to be and then what your staffing proposal is? Yes. So, the new prices for student breakfast at elementary will be $2. Adult breakfast at the all schools will be $2.50. Student lunches at the elementary will be $310. And an adult lunch will be $5 for the whole corporation. Middle school and high school, student breakfast will be $2.
Uh we've made a lot of great strides. Um obviously we got a long way to go from the first event to um finding the gaps and holes in those uh as we went through and talked to different departments and the schools you know has other things that we do have to do as well that we're coming through right now to get to that. So that was Tuesday, Tuesday morning. Um the 6. Um so we had great feedback, great ideas, had everybody in the same room was was the next step of this process is do the same thing but located in the elementary building. Now we plan to do that in the fall. Kind of looking out even farther. Um we it was an active asalent type of safety tabletop. Um the next step to that will be pressuring that reunification plan for us and then again for the elementary.
So our goal is not only to inform about mental health but to also like encourage people. And so as we as Meg said um May is mental health awareness month. Viking. And uh so we waited till May to kind of do this uh also because finals are coming up and we know that's kind of a stressful time for a lot of people. So we're just doing some like affirmations that kind of help people throughout the day just as something small but to kind of help encourage them. Um, so when we got to choose what we wanted to do for our project, we decided that we were going to do a big presentation within the school, but we decided the video would be better because you can watch it throughout whenever you need it. Um, when we were coming up with the planning for this video, we created a survey for students to take.
Uh board, any questions or comments regarding this? Miss done. So I just when will we have we'll do a special ceremony, Roger and Grant, once we have everything in place. Hopefully before our good man leaves us in in June. Uh we have a special retirement ceremony. So hope we can tie all that together, but it depends on how quickly we're able to put all the plaques and things. This is a simple one because the room is already done. We just need to make sure we get the placers ready to honor him. wants you to prove. I'm sorry for it. Once you prove it, just very welld deserved. Sorry of how awkward it is sitting here hearing people say nice things about you. But it's sort of sorry not sorry. It's the Dr. Gagline farewell tour. We will miss you. Um Dr. Maholland, just quick question.
Yeah. Right. But um so I know that locally Massachusetts level there's legislation being talked about for cell phones specifically. I think there's also screen time. Um, interestingly, so I was for our last meeting and I'll sum that up later, but the American Academy of Physicians um actually went took a step back from saying two hours only screen time, right? That's all that we hear. That's all I council. Um, but they actually took a step back and they said really it's the quality and who's overseeing it and not the quantity. So that sounds like it makes more sense because uh I mean you can't get away from it. You know, you have every single person in this room uses a device to work, but you're going to be on it. It's a tool, right? It's just like a graphing calculator instead of uh Abigus. We we we talked about it.
What are reliable sources of information? critically evaluating evidence. You know, I think of an example where I experienced um being on a on a jury jury duty and it was an actual crime and I had to sit there and evaluate evidence. It was such an interesting experience because you were you were told by the judge, don't pay any attention to your biases or your preconceived notions. Put those aside. Look at the evidence. Think about the evidence. Right? And I thought that's a pretty amazing thing that uh first of all he's trusting us to do that, right? Um and it's you don't have to be a scientist to do that, right? But it's it's it takes attention to do it. The healthy thinking habits questioning our own assumptions and those those you know this is something that um we learn as as we go along. Hopefully we learned it earlier.
I am wondering if as we're building and developing those regulations over the course of the next school year if there are maybe and K I'll defer to you on this as as the chairperson but maybe a couple of check-ins across the year where we could just provide some feedback maybe not the regulations in their entirety but so far so far with the roll out we've done this this is what we would recommend um and maybe check in a few times across the school year so we're not having just an end of the year conversation related to the regulations that would also give a time for this committee to ask any questions questions and response, give feedback so that when we get to the end of the year, we have fully uh flushed out regulations related to this policy. Just I think that's a great idea.
Come on, get the Clippers." You know, so she's struggling this like really about. So had a good time. They were they were tired. It was not sunny. It was kind of just they had all that rain and um uh after they were done being sore, they want to do it again. So, we'll we'll keep it going. Thank you. [Music] Don't really have anything in addition just to say that all of our certified positions are filled going into next year. So, that's exciting. And um I have not done final numbers for what it's going to look like for PAR educator openings, but I will say that the majority um the overwhelming majority of saying they are returning next year. So I'm actually somewhat encouraged before I put the paper that it's not going to hit 30. uh just uh - funding uh in my report uh our commitment from the federal government came through on that project.
He said he can come out the same time he's doing this one, but he's he's getting really booked at this point. So, the first thing is the contract and the second thing is if we're going to move forward with the contract under the understanding that, you know, one year it'll be $6,500 and the next year it'll be that plus redoing the gym for and I don't have a problem with doing it. I just want to make sure it's still worth the investment that we're putting into it, you know, because that was the whole pitch that it was such a great deal and everything. I just want to make sure it's still a great deal, you know, even though we're adding into it. I think that is a good investment to make in in that since especially since we're the ones having all of the extra activities there.
We all have to work together as a team to make it happen for all of these children and all of their unique needs. And so teamwork is vital. Okay. So our team, Christine Gomes is our administrative assistant. Christine Felton is the compliance coordinator. Next year she's going to be the assistant director. Joe Kumer is our current special ed assistant director and then myself the special education director Nicole Bette. Okay. So we provide related services um on top of education. It's physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech orientation, mobility, vision, hearing and we work closely with the Arizona School of the Deaf and Blind ASDB. We also contract with um Ascend, which is a private day school for students with autism. This upcoming year, we're most likely, it's like 98% sure, going to be contracting with Rise, who is based out of Cottonwood right now. They are going to be renting a building in Humboldt.
And so I would almost just say we take this out um or we put in something that's like the uh like superintendent shall look into because we have like not my kid but they don't do staff trainings. So, um, we it doesn't look like anything now. There is no drug abuse prevention. Correct. Yeah. I mean, as far as I know, I don't think that's required by statute. Correct, Jay? I don't believe it is. Um, you know, obviously it's something Jessica could advise us on if we're wrong and obviously it would be something we would need to correct. We've put a lot of effort in the last several years to trying to bring some partners to bear, which is how, you know, we got partnered up with Not My Kid and and some of the other resources that we have available to our families. But, um, if that's not adequate, it's something we really need to know so that way we can do something different.
So, we looked at amplify uh HMH and into literature is uh 68 and then Savis my perspectives. And so again, after each of those sessions, I would meet with the teachers, collect their feedback about the strengths and areas that they felt needed some support, gathered all of that, and at the very end of the pilot process, we did another uh feedback that was anonymous and asked them their strengths aligned to the Illinois literacy plan and our literacy beliefs here at Big Hollow and then what their overall recommendation was. So it was a six to three uh for Savis for gen ed and so that's where we went. I think it'll be a really strong product for us. It's pretty all-encompassing. It really offers a lot of opportunities for whole group, small groupoup instruction and just differentiation. Along with this process, I reached out to all the middle schoolers and they took a quick survey as well to share with us their feedback about the products.
And so uh and being a skilled communicator uh they're asked to go talk in front of people quite often and so I want somebody that that the kids can relate to. We have found that in our two officers and as we speak here uh it's unfortunate but officer Lorenzo has been picked to be our next detective and so he unfortunately will be leaving us but it also gives us this ability to go through that skill set of other officers that have applied for the job and uh it's uh it'll be a new opportunity for an officer a new opportunity to an officer to put their stamp on what the SRO looks like in our schools. So I'm very excited about that opportunity. Um, but ultimately, go next, please. Ultimately, what we're looking for is an SRO that can make an impact. I preach it to my guys all the time.
Um, adult breakfast will be $ 250. Student lunch will be 3.25. an adult lunch still $5 for the whole corporation. Um the staffing changes for school year 2526. Um at the elementary we had four full-time six 6 hours is our full time in the kitchen. um six hour. We had four four full six hours uh employees and in 2526 we were going to go down to three excuse me three full-time employees. In the middle school and high school we've always had um eight six-hour employees and now we will technically have six six-hour employees and one four-hour employee. So that's a little bit different but they're doing great. Any other questions? All right. So, I need a motion, a second to approve the prices for next school year on lunches and breakfast. I'll make a motion to approve the prices for the lunches and breakfast for next school year.