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So even if they are in Tucson, we then have to meet with that team. We have to go through the evaluation evaluation process. We have to go through all of that through our voucher system. So it it and it's all considered an unfunded mandate. Okay. Child find. So child find is something we are required to do. We are required to make sure that any child two years 10 and a half months are screened um and that if there is a suspicion of a disability and then if they come through ASIP which is our Arizona Early Intervention Program, we have to have an IEP in place by the age of three. wheel child finds. Bry's team does an amazing job at Territorial setting up the appointments, having um speech there, the psychologist there. Everyone's there to screen these children. If they fail the screening, they go right into the evaluation process.
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In the car? Yeah. Well, for those of us who do not do well with tobacco smoke, it was a painful experience. But sometimes when you care a lot about getting what you need to support your students, you're willing to sacrifice your lungs to make a request. So, I mean, obviously, it takes a lot for um for a staff member to get to the point where somebody's actually going to be able to search your car. So, I mean, I'm not going to condone anything, but I probably air on the side of not bringing it in the classroom. Yeah, I think I think it's fine. They have it stored in their car. I just think they can't use it within Yeah, don't hold me to the 75 ft. It's what I remember, but it might be. I think it's even further than 75 feet. I think it's like a thousand feet.
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Anybody any questions on the recent board policy update? And if I could just on this, I did not have a policy committee meeting because I just got this last week. I went through it. There's ar there are not any significant changes and uh specifically title N. They went back to the old title N that we never did approve the new ones. So not a lot of changes for us. So I thought if the policy committee still wants to meet, we can meet before the next meeting, second reading if they want to. So new policy meeting. Are you guys good? We're good. All right.
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That's why you see us in a semiuniform walking around the hallways talking to kids at the front door when kids come in first uh to greet them when they come into school, making sure that the doors are locked and walking around and doing safety checks and whatnot with the school. That is a huge component of it. Uh and then the unfortunate part is when there is criminality in the school. That's something that we have to deal with. And so what we do is we're focusing on the preventative portion and problem solving, but also teaching kids the right or wrong and that mentor portion, that counseling portion. But while we're doing all these things, it's my job and the chief's job and our job to always evaluating what we're doing and making sure that we're doing what's right for the students and and and the school environment.
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Um, they're very expensive. Um, like $110,000 a piece. And I've had some teachers tell me that they're very loud and they don't really care much for them. They work well, but um, and I don't know, Tammy, do you have one of those like a chat? That's what I heard. They're very very loud and they're disruptive sometimes to the class. So, we are looking at different alternatives and that's one thing he's trying to look at for us. Uh some rooftop units, um different things that we can do differently. We have presently we have at least two rooms that have to be done this year. Um Mr. Noble's room, Mrs. Hughes. I think it's Mrs. Hughes's room. Yeah. And I think there was a third in Mrs. Holiday's room and I believe that they've come and they figured out what's wrong with that and it's working without any issues right now.
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So, just big thank you to pretty awesome. All right. Thank you. Okay. Uh moving forward here, new business. Um I'd like to get a motion to discuss uh 6.1 and 6.2. 6.1 is transportation option for mento and then 6.2 is okay. The first item on the new business agenda is for ever driven. I'm going to have Laura come up and talk a little bit more about this as well, but if you are the public, if you're not familiar with Mckin Ventual Act, it is a federal law that provides um support for students who are homeless or displaced during a school year. And it allows them to allow students to remain um at their school of choice, whether that be the school they started out in at the beginning of the year or the new school where they are um displaced to. and schools typically will share costs.
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Are there any questions? Does anybody have any questions? So Meg um you're in a new position this year and we've started this is this I mean you're just unrolling this really for the first time. Talk to us about your perspective of how this has gone what you have learned through this process etc. Then I have a question for the students then. Okay ask question. Okay. So, we in the past were uh had a suicide prevention group called sources of strength and this was a group that is at the national level like you can do it at schools all over the place but they started to charge money for students to be able to be involved in it. So, we thought we're creative, we're exciting, all of these students have all of this energy. Let's start something that is our own. So, this is a homegrown group, which I think is really exciting because I think the kids are um more into it and they can make it their own.
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Well, since we've wrapped up the legislative cycle, there aren't many updates to to be had. So, no update from me this evening. Yes. Thank you. I know everyone can use the rest. Yeah. All right. At this time, then I will move on to policy with Miss Tucket. All right, we have Niola has released policy revision package volume 37 number two. Uh this volume is one of two that we will see based on the last legislative session. It includes proposed revisions for 74 policies. Dr. Harshburgger, I have a new coffee and I'll bring snacks for this. I'm ready and oddly excited for it. The revisions recommended in this update are deemed necessary to comply with the changes in the law. both state and federal and the policy committee is on track for the first reading at the June 9th work session. So I'm ready, sir. All right.
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So, it's it's a bit challenging. Um, another item, uh, long-term subs. You know, we've talked a lot about sort of looking at those numbers. Uh, right now in the aggregate across the district, uh, we have about $58,000 to the good, long-term subs, which is good. Um, day-to-day subs, we're only about $9,500 to the good to get us through, you know, sort of the last couple months of the year. Uh but net net, if you think about that as one big category of substitutes, we're about $67,500 to the good that should cover the the remainder of the year one way or the other. Dayto-day subs will go over, but long-term subs will be under, which is that that's the way a budget works, right? We're taking the best guesses we can. Some things pan out to the positive, some things pan out. Um and then we I talked about a little bit before.
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And so it it was just coming against a roadblock because we thought we would find a protein and we kept on trying to find a protein and that was what made us realize that it wasn't a protein. So everything we did was to try to prove it was a protein and coming against you know this roadblock. And so you have to have an open mind and say there's something really strange going on here. And so that's um you know it was fantastic because it was such a surprise um to find something so novel. Um but you know when you are a scientist you have to um be ready to you know have a lot of failure and have your notions challenged but be open to trying is there some way that this all makes sense and so that's you want What's a Nobel Prize? Um, so Nobel Prize is a a prize that comes out.
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Um we then go on to talk about who can do the physical examination. Uh typically it is a child's physician but there are times and situations in which um an advanced practice registered nurse could do a physical, a PA or um in in some circumstances a medical advisor. Um so that was updated here. We typically don't have a reg a registered nurse responsible for the annual physical screening which is why there's a strike through here. Um it goes on to talk about what the health assessment should include. Um and so uh that is by statutory language what is required to be considered an annual physical examination. Um there was some optional language here for tuberculosis screening. Um and in collaboration and coordination with our uh medical adviser um it was not advisable to use this optional language. You'll see much more detailed language later in the policy.
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Therefore, I believe is important that we stand firm in our commitments to demonstrate consistency and ensure that our actions align with the best interest of our district. We owe it to our community to be transparent, deliberate, and principled in our decisions. That is how we maintain trust, demonstrate integrity, and effectively serve those who elected us. And with that, I just wanted to uh reinforce and pass those uh current job description for board members. That's it. You guys Yeah. Anybody else have any? Yeah, I uh first off, I would like to thank um the members of the advisory committee um that helped with that with the bond. um to our left. Thank you for that. So, it took it was a lot of time and commitment. Um it was a process started in about 18 months ago. Um the board had discussed it in September and October.
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I move to approve paradigm. Okay. Motion by Allison. Second by Josh. Any further questions, comments, discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes. 7. The concrete pad at Central Plains Elementary. Okay. So, we're talking about the U concrete pad out behind where we when we toured, we had the drainage situation out there that we have. Um, Central Plains Elementary School has about $15,000 in contributions, right, Miss Oer? Yes. Okay. Uh so it's our estimate that we'd have to put around $11,000 from our capital outlay around that number with um the 15,000 that they have raised to complete this project this summer. So we did get two bids in. One was from Sharky Construction and ones from Scott Christensen. So uh pulling those up. Sharky Construction with their um they did give us the option of pouring um the 10 by40 concrete pad in between both of them for $3,000.
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We get them rolling in special education and it goes all the way up through 21. Okay. So, part of the law that we have to follow is the least restrictive environment. We always have to consider is the student with their non-disabled peers as much as possible. So whenever a child is in a special education class but they're showing a lot of growth, the teacher, the parents, everyone needs to be thinking, is this where they need to be? Do they need this much support? And so um that is according to the idea. Okay, next one. Sorry. So, we have in your packets, you should have the continuum of special education services. I broke it down to explain um the least or the most restrictive, least restrictive, and it has little arrows for you. And then each program is explained in detail and it's colorcoded for you if you your board, you want to read about our continuum of services.
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Pile of cigarettes. Okay. So then my wondering is for this one um and then Tim we're on JICR. I almost feel like if we take out um I'm going to put it in blue. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I think that if it's like within the first 30 days, they'll arrange a meeting that will include information on drug use prevention because then we don't have to worry about like is it an outside group? Have they been specially trained because we don't have something specific in mind. That would be my vote. That is so you would your vote is to keep that to take that out. The only thing we would keep for staff education is that within the first days 30 days um the superintendent will arrange a meeting that includes information on drug abuse prevention. Yeah. And I what I would ask is maybe instead of a meeting it could be we'll arrange um a vector training just I think vector would be the right way to deliver a training we'll arrange a training.
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Anybody have any questions on the recent board policy update? Can I please have a motion to approve the recent board policy update on first reading? Motion. Second. Joe and Vivian. All in favor? Any oppose? I have it. And we have any question on the hazardous bus conditions? Can I please have a motion to approve the certification of hazardous bus conditions? Motion. Joe and Ash. All in favor? I. oppos.
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And so ultimately when we are faced with some sort of criminal element, some crime that happened, we have kind of four different ways we can kind of come to an outcome of what that looks like. Ultimately, if the staff and school says, "Hey, we had this crime that occurs. How do we want to handle it?" We collaborate with them. We could go as little as counseling, and we like that we can be able to get in front of a student after the dean has said, "Hey, this is what's right or wrong." And then they can bring us in as somebody as a second voice, somebody with a uniform on that might that student might see us in a little different light and be able to listen. Hey, this is really serious. You can't do this. You know, learn from your mistake and move on, right?
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So, so I put down here a list of things for year one um replace the faucets K3 uh phone system and FA fob system which u Mr. Davis is working on. Um, we've got kitchen ceiling tile replaced. We're looking for a vendor for that. Um, I think we've got somebody in mind who may come by and give us a bid on taking care of that. Right now, that that seal those ceiling tile there are these old those old 9 in ones that slide together and once they break, you can't get another one in there. Um, and it just looks horrible with it. We've got pipes exposed and all kinds of stuff that's in there that doesn't look good. So, replace the bathroom fixtures in the annex and the junior high gym. Um, Ross has got a vendor guy who's going to come and take care of that.
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Um, but we have uh it's a it's a difficult situation to navigate transportation wise. So, um, if you want to talk about maybe where we travel to go and get students and how that works and this company will provide solutions at German is kind of like um, Lyft or Uber. They're a nationalation company that will transport students across district line should we meet them too. Um the drivers have to pass 18 screening requirements. Their vehicles are expected on regular basis. Um this year we have students that have lived some of these students have moved multiple times throughout the school year but Frankfurt Dayton West Lafayette Lafayette ourselves that we have to provide the parents um some of students are bringing their students into the school district for This year alone, we've had I've been working with Neil, so she's g statistics. Um, 15 families with 28 students that have been identified as the definition of homeless.
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Um we also have um probably 70 students at um Crest View that are in Hope in the Middle and 40 at Riverview and Hope in the Middle. And so when those eighth graders that have been in Hope in the Middle now for two years um come up to the high school, we're going to double or triple our group next year. So, I think we'll have a lot of energy for next year. So, if a couple students if if you're brave enough to come back up here, tell me something that you learned this year. What a couple of you what what um what did you learn through this process? One thing I learned from this process was that nobody is alone in whatever struggle they're going through. There is so much going on in so many people's lives that we never know about. So, I kind of always go by that everyone is struggling through something that you never know about.
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