And now it is time to welcome our Pine Creek 2025 student representatives, our validictorian, Ava Lewis. Our saludiatoran, Kushi Tuluru, our 2025 student speaker, Jiu Kim, your senior class president, Valerie Angelo, and Pine Creek High School student body president, EMTT Smith. Thank you. I would also like to take a moment to recognize and thanks the folks who are providing the outstanding music uh for this ceremony. The members of the Pine Creek High School Concert Band under the direction of Kate Margaret and Hannah Mancini. and later you will have a performance by our girls ac capella group Nuance under the direction of Mr. Dan Jeffson and Miss Heidi Lopez. Thank you for sharing your talents with us today. We are fortunate to have an exceptional staff at Pine Creek High School. A fun fact, eight of our staff members sat right where you are and graduated from Pine Creek and five of them have been there since the school opened.
For Emily Gambo Radini, our NHS president, this means challenging herself with AP classes at school and leading as a captain of her soccer team. For me, this meant challenging myself with AP classes as well, but also pursuing internships for Congressman Bodat Coleman and also other local nonprofits. This exemplar scholarship also extends to each current and incoming member of the UI High School National Honor Society. of our current members. We have students looking to further their education at renowned universities including the California University of Pennsylvania, Emerson College, George Washington, Hofra, Harvard, Lehi, Lyola University of Chicago, NYU, Penn State, Rowan, Ruckers New Brunswick, Sean Hall, Stockton, TCJ, University of Delaware, Worth Institute of Technology, and Xavier University of Louisiana. As a chosen representative of scholarship here tonight, it has been an honor to work alongside these 22 intellectuals who challenged themselves in the classrooms and also excelled in sports, art competitions, musical editions, and so much more.
So they do have scholarships for esports just like uh any other sports. So um you're going to see probably a lot more esports is even at the collegiate level now. Um, and so it's a growing sport um that you'll probably start to see a whole lot um in the in the near future. Um, we also had uh it's this time of year where you have a lot of the CTuh competitions both at the state level and some cases uh national level or students will have qualify for nationals and nationals will be this summer. So, we got a number of different uh kids that are doing well uh within CTE, Skills USA, uh Arizona State Leadership and Skills Conference at the Phoenix Convent Convention Center. Maline Pierce and Jared Higgley placed in the top 10 for t-shirt design uh and display. Cody Alex top 10 finished for pin design, display.
Good evening everyone and welcome. It is Wednesday 14th at 6:35. I call this meeting to order. Lisa, can you please call the role? Robert Downey present. Patty Catra present. Carol Lopez present. Ben Owens. Shante Rosschild present. Thank you.
Okay. Uh, our next candidate who's going to give their opening statement is Joe Manyani. Thank you, Yolanda. Uh, that's kind of hard to to follow up with with with Brandy, but I'll do my very best. Uh, hi, I'm Joe Manyani. I am running for reelection. Uh I will be completing my fifth term uh as a select board member which means I've been here for 15 years and hopefully for another three if I'm lucky enough to get reelected. Um I feel that I'm qualified with the years of experience that I that I have on the board uh working with Brandy, working with Yolanda and working with all the other uh select men and select board members over over these 15 years. Yeah, we've uh we faced a lot of uh adversity over those 15 years, but we had we had a lot of accomplishments as well, like Brandy said.
They normally say good morning. Another job is the morning cafe crew. They sweep and clean the tables so that the cafeteria is ready to go for lunch. The dismissal guides help people find their bus. They also open and open the doors as the students are leaving. The bucket retrievers pull out the trash cans from the rooms every day. This helps our custodian do the job more efficiently. That was my job and it was fun to go to every class. The common organizers are responsible for putting all the chairs up at the end of the day so that others can get by and the floors can get cleaned. In the morning, the commons organizers work in the commons to get them ready for the day. Every grade at Mendes will have the opportunity to do community service. Next year, grade three will take care of the courtyard and raised beds.
Uh, it's kind of like it's it's a traditional blues piece and kind of like a minorish feel. Um, very tasteful. Oh, yeah. Blake's gonna solo on this one, too. [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] High a feeling. [Music] Now I know [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I feel [Applause] Yeah. Glory. Here you go. All right, folks. This is our seventh and eighth grade concert band. Um, we have a number of pieces prepared for you tonight. Before we get into that, I just want to introduce my TA, my helper, the guy that helped me put this all together because, as you can tell, there's like 35 of them. They all have instruments. There's one of me. You know, it's it gets to be um it gets loud. So, a round big thanks for me to Conor for all his help this year.
I have six grandkids and it was very difficult for them to try this. But well, right now the youngest is seven. So for her to sit still and try to do something on a computer that was a touchcreen that my kids had to go out and buy was extremely difficult. She's a hyper kid anyway. Um the 10-year-old has is doing well. They both are excellent at reading and that's because people have taken it and made a big effort from the home. Um, so there's just so many needs and I guess I will just wrap up by saying I also have taught some special need kids in their own home. Um, so I have a history of being hired by school systems to work one- on-one with kids and we want we don't want a school size that's going to make that impossible. So my son-in-law laid off a lot of teachers in the Attalboroough school system and the union wasn't strong enough to insist and they're increased immensely.
I have six grandkids and it was very difficult for them to try this but well right now the youngest is seven. So for her to sit still and try to do something on a computer that was a touchscreen that my kids had to go out and buy was extremely difficult. She's a hyper kid anyway. Um the 10-year-old has is doing well. They both are excellent at reading and that's because people have taken it and made a big effort from the home. Um, so there's just so many needs and I guess I will just wrap up by saying I also have taught some special need kids in their own home. Um, so I have a history of being hired by school systems to work one-on-one with kids and we want we don't want a school size that's going to make that impossible. So my son-in-law laid off a lot of teachers in the Attelboroough school system and the union wasn't strong enough to insist and they're increased immensely.
Board of Education welcomes public comment. Individuals or groups may address the board concerning any subject which was within the board's jurisdiction. Three minutes will be allotted to each speaker and a maximum of 15 minutes to each subject matter. The speaker is requested to state their name and address. And any comments online? Do we have anybody here that's interested in making any kind of public comment? Anyone online? Anyone? No. All right, moving on. Um, approval of the minutes. So, I make the motion that the, uh, Board of Education accept the April 9th regular meeting minutes as presented. Second. All right.
It's always been the school that has been looked at differently in the community. Um, ever since I was a kid and since my parents, my dad went to Rogers Park. Uh, and that's kind of what my goal is for the rest of my career is to see how I can improve that school. Uh, and make everyone have a better experience that walks through our doors. So, thank you. Thank you. We have a little something for you from the board and we'd love to take a picture with you. Sure, we can do that. All right, come on up. Congratulations. [Applause] Just don't cheek. [Music] Thank you. Thank you again. [Applause] Can we just stay up here in a minute? I'm curious. It's a lot of fun and uh it keeps them moving. The question was the question was that um if the staff would call you humble but what would the students call you?
Is there a motion to cons to approve the remaining agenda? I'd like to pull an item from the agenda. No, I'd like Yes. I'd like to pull an item. I'd like to pull item 8F from the agenda for future uh meetings. for us to discuss at a future meeting. Okay, very good. Is there a second? I'll second. Okay. Discussion.
I. Oppose. None. It's unanimous. All right, let's continue on to which one is that now. Section nine. Yeah, section nine. There it is. Section nine. comments from the public on non-aggenda items. I believe we have speakers before us, but that one on the bottom. Yeah. Thank you very much. But before I call on the speakers, I would like to please read the speaker conduct. For all who wish to address the board during public comments periods, speakers are requested to state your name and affiliation for the record.
Um they all got an invitation and we I think we have 21 of them right here. Not all of them can make it, but I'm pretty excited about that. And um as we're transitioning from the fifth grade band to the fourth and fifth grade choir coral program um next year, this is really this is going to be my fourth grade core singers and and then of course there'll be fifth graders. It's going to be very exciting. Um and I thought that we should stand for America the Beautiful, which will be our first number if you would like to. All you need. Heat. Heat. Wondering. [Music] Sorry about that. I thought I hit the pause button. You never know. Um, as as Mr. Bayar mentioned that this is our 50th grandparents day. And so, um, our theme is decades. So, we are choosing each grade level chose an iconic tune from the decades spanning from the 60s to the 2000s.
[Applause] As we are a prek12 campus, I'd like to recognize our Discovery Canyon campus principles and APs who are in attendance. From the middle school, principal Miss Veronica Layman over and assistant principal Dan Carrager from the elementary school, Mr. Steven Scott. And I would also like to thank our Discovery Canyon campus feeder schools, principal Miss Laura Cresup of Analopee Trails Elementary School, and Mrs. Sheen Freeman Todd from the Da Vinci Academy. Thank you for being here today to celebrate our Discovery Canyon class of 2025. I would also like to acknowledge and thank our Discovery Canyon Campus High School administrative team. Mrs. Michael Carpenter, assistant principal. Mr. David King, assistant principal and activities director, Mr. Bob Bentley, assistant principal and athletic director. Miss Lynn Osburn, our dean of students, and families. Someone you may not know that has done a great job making sure our campus community is safe.
Uh this year we get to celebrate several special recognitions. As I call your name, if you would please stand to be recognized. Our educator of the year this year is none other than Dr. Rebecca Daly, formerly known as Dr. Keith. Congratulations on your marriage. As well, our classified staff member of the year and a huge part of putting graduation together for you today is the amazing Miss Carrie PH. [Applause] And our team of the year this year is the English department including Miss Val Bavett, Ben Eper, Sarah Mario, Carolyn Mertens, Barb Melgorey, Justin Moral, Candace Mott, Leah Newman, Shannon Pletches, Stacy Reynolds, Reinie Ren, Bowen Shared, Carrie Sloan, Katherine Spencer, and Lynette Tidwell. [Applause] We also have the tradition of recognizing those staff members who are retiring from Pine Creek this year. We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your years of ser service to our students and community.
I'm sure the new inductees bring nothing less than this scholarly zeal and tenacity to our chapter membership. And as they begin to as they begin this new journey, we look forward to seeing them continue the tradition of scholar success at EHS excel in the classroom and beyond. Now, please welcome [Applause] Ezra. Good evening everybody. Character is the force within the individual that distinguishes each person from others. It creates for each of us your individuality, our goodness. Every day your character is displayed in your actions and the choices you make. It is seeing the respect you have for yourself and the respect you give to others. It is this force of character that guides one through life and once developed grow steadily within. Character is achieved and not received. It is the product of constant thought and action. The daily striving to make the right choice.
Um and so they had a success. Our um uh yearbook journalism class did well at the national level with uh eight to nine students receiving uh national awards and placing a national awards for both the Combmes Courier, the EPIC gearbook and the rundown. Um, and so, uh, uh, Caleb, uh, Kesolini, Jen Hamilton, Natalie Nash, Haley Old Tucker, Sky, uh, Skyler Bears, uh, Caleum again in two other categories, Jen Hamilton and Claire Hume all won a variety of different awards, and I know in some of the cases, uh, Miss Wanger and I were just looking at one, there was a picture of a of a swimmer that was just an unbelievable picture to be placed at the national level. So they were very successful. We also have kids that are uh uh having success in committing to collegiate athletics. Nathan Alvarez, Andress Martinez, and Alexander Payon will play soccer after four years of being together at CHS.
Now move on to um pledge of allegiance and invite Dr. Robinson to lead us in the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. We now move on to item 1 D adoption of the agenda. Motion second. You second. Yes. Oh, sorry. I didn't need it. Lisa, we have a motion to second. Shante Rothschild. I. Carolyn Lopez. I. Patty Coutrey. I. Robert Downey. I. So moved. We now move on to item four, superintendent report. Dr. Lupman. Thank you, President Downey. Maricopa Unified, Kasa Grande Elementary, and Kasa Grande Union High School Districts recently collaborated to propose a minor boundary adjustment aimed at better aligning district lines with current and projected growth. This adjustment would shift a five square mile area in the southeast corner of the city of Maricopa from Kasa Grande districts into Maricopa Unified School District, allowing future students to attend schools closer to home.
Um and just like to add that u land preservation and land uh is very important to me in open space. So during my tenure, there's been over 404 acres of land that have been purchased and provided uh to the town town forest and to open space and uh most recently a 54 acre apostle of land uh from UC which is uh the United Christ Church in Frammingham uh was purchased by Ashland for just a little over a million dollars. 54 acres for a million dollars isn't a bad deal and that's going to be part of the new uh the addition to the Ashland Town Forest. So, I'm very proud of that as well. Um again, I've been here for 15 years. Uh I'm a retired police sergeant. Um service for 34 years in town here. I've been married for 44 years and I have three grown children, nine great grand uh uh nine grandchildren.