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Um, definitely fewer students being referred to Fairview with our independent study programs. We're able to catch kids with the 8th period day. we have a little bit of wiggle room. Um we did increase our credits as you probably remember from 235 to 250 um just so that we can kind of hang on to those seniors um a little bit better. Um we are able to enroll our 9th graders in grade level math um because we are putting that math lab or that extra support academic success in with that. So we have fewer sections of math C which is technically an eighth grade class which is a win. Um, our completion rates for CTE have definitely gone up. Um, our increase, our dual enrollment numbers have definitely gone up. And I I missed the Oh, you did get my good numbers. Okay, never mind. I thought you didn't have them.
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Any questions on the second read? Okay. So if there are no questions, no comments, then we will take I'll take a motion. I move to approve the change to polish recommended in policy advisory 8/19 through 862 and policy advisory 86 through865 as presented. Okay. Right. All in favor? I I motion carries five to zero. Okay. 8.5 discussion and consideration of approval of the 2425 annual expenditure budget. You're on. Good evening, Madame President, members of the board, Dr. Wyman, members of the audience and community. Um, action action item 8.5 is to comply with Arizona Revised Statute 15905, which requires districts to complete final fiscal year expenditure budget revisions for governing board approval before May 15th. That's why we're here tonight. Approved revisions are due to the superintendent of public instruction no later than May 18th. You received an alert that the original attachment to this agenda item was changed yesterday.
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Thank you again for your time and continued support. I'm incredibly proud of the growth, collaboration, and outcomes we've seen this year. The future of MUSD's ESS department is bright, and we look forward to continuing the work with passion and purpose.
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Um and if the state and the federal government if things change we will have to change as well. So that that that is what we're doing, but we are staying in close contact with our state representatives because they are fighting for us and keeping us in the loop on anything that they're seeing on their end. If I could real quick, real quick, piggyback real quick because it is important and the town's people need to hear this is that federally the Department of Education is possibly could could possibly be eliminated and as a result of that any and all funding when it comes to special education is is gone is gone federally. That will definitely put many of us, I would say not just Ashland, but every single municipality in the country in some dire straits because we were looking forward for that money to help spe to help you know with special ed uh programs and and transportation which are the two major issues right now.
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Any questions for us so far? I think next year will be the big one because we'll be writing a new plan for another three years. So, go from there. Thanks. Awesome. Thank you, Sarah. Thanks, Sarah. So, actually, Sarah, I just want to say, as you know, as we're we're going to begin a transition at Pitway and and Sarah's going to to move back into her special ed coordinator role, uh, which she does so well. And, uh, I personally want to say thank you for the work you've done and and the shoes that the next principal/director is going to have to fill is just enormous. and the work that you've put in and guided not just from the special education standpoint but the general education uh has been unbelievable and we've come a long way and we're looking forward to having you still with us in the in the role to to help guide our next person uh whomever that might be but I wanted publicly because I I don't know if you're going to be back in this setting with us um for retirement over the next maybe retirements we have one we have one or Mrs.
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Okay, thank you very much. Next on our agenda, uh we next have the uh consent agenda which includes approving the minutes of April 9th, 2025, approving the administrative receptionist job description, approving high school library book weeding lists, not reading lists, weeding meaning getting rid of books, approve summer eats pay rates, approve the donation of three play structures for the Discovery School at Four Corners Play Area and approved the city capital planning committee vote that approved the purchase of the combo oven with a not to exceed dollar amount of $120,000 funds for the purchase to come from the food service revolving account. Are there any items on the consent agenda that any member would like to separate out? Um, not seeing any. So, I would hear a motion to approve the consent agenda. So, moved. A motion from Secretary Den. Is there a second? Second. Second from member Goodwin.
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Okay, thank you very much. Next on our agenda, uh we next have the uh consent agenda which includes approving the minutes of April 9th, 2025, approving the administrative receptionist job description, approving high school library book weeding lists, not reading lists, weeding meaning getting rid of books, approve summer eats pay rates, approve the donation of three play structures for the Discovery School at four corners play area and approved the city capital planning committee vote that approved the purchase of the combo oven with a not to exceed dollar amount of $120,000 funds for the purchase to come from the food service revolving account. Are there any items on the consent agenda that any member would like to separate out? Um, not seeing any. So, I would hear a motion to approve the consent agenda. So, moved. A motion from Secretary Den. Is there a second? Second. Second from member Goodwin.
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Um, and then we've just got a ton. We've got like our science fair coming up, a lot of field trips. Um, we've got Night of the Arts next week. Super excited about that. Um, Chad has been, Mr. Fortune's been working really hard on the music side of it. Um, Mrs. Rogers has been working on the visual arts and it's just gorgeous. A lot of really neat and unique um, projects uh, that's going there. Uh, we've got a unified celebration next Wednesday. Um, spring flames year is coming up. Um, and then we've got the night of gratitude uh is coming up for our staff and we have what 50 53 something like that which I mean an early is a lot but is is a huge increase. So that's really great. Um I think that's a huge shout out to Brandy and all the work that she's been doing kind of organizing and you know really kind of taking that on as a as a labor of love.
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We also appreciate our officials because they ensure that our matches run smoothly and fairly. We'd be unable to operate without them. And we spend a week every so in the fall, the winter, and the spring. We spend a week. We're currently doing it for the spring this week. Um, and we just, you know, we appreciate them and we say thank you. We hand them little goodie bags with some snacks. We got them, we got them little t-shirts with a little hatter on them saying we appreciate you. Um, and they really they do love that, too. So there are some pictures with our wrestling, ice hockey, and football officials. And then we also did the penguin plunge to benefit the Special Olympics. So we jumped into that big ice water. It was very cold, but we did that was a lot of fun, too. And then some upcoming events.
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And so these were our competitors and um our first grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade students all took first place. So that was super exciting. Yeah. Um let's see what else. Uh we've had a lot of twinning happen on campus. Uh Earth Day, a bunch of staff ordered Earth shirts and so um that's the picture that you see there on the left. And um Christy Newell and Erica Robisho have been twinning like crazy. And so uh they wore Easter theme shirts and um we were throughout the month of April we were wearing um autism acceptance shirts and so there's a picture of them there. They have organized a last day of school shirt for the staff. So, um, yeah, you'll see that. And so, yeah, they're en enjoying themselves and and having fun. And I think that they're twins like every single day. Oh my gosh.
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So just want to share that opportunity for anyone who would like to be out there and lend their voice to that cause. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Fuentes. We shall continue then. Any comments from the board regarding the announcements? All right. No. Oh, go ahead. So yeah, just you know just add on to your uh comments on LAR festival. Just want to shout out to Dan uh you know from uh Mara uh Dan Smith and all the crews that participated and Sally O Young for always you know and hopefully we can persuade her to do it again next year. You know she it's a it's quite a task and you know for everybody thanks a lot um you know it was a great event we had you know great attendance uh from the community and it's an important community event and also you know to our sponsors we had you know quite a few corporate sponsors and they're the ones that also you know help make it happen.
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Um, but you can see that both both sites, we've increased our ability to dual enroll. We've increased our ability to offer AP courses because now we have more space in the schedule. Um, I definitely think and and you have been at PV a long time, too. I definitely think I just saw a slowing down like a calming across campus because we have less transition. We have less movement um on campus. Kids are prepping for four classes each day. So, their life is a little more manageable. They're if they're an athlete, they have time to do that um while while still maintaining, you know, great grades and in two sets of four classes. But definitely slowed down the campus. Um and um again, with all the block schedule stuff, we're also able to have common preps for our co-teers. So that's helped with gened and co-e special ed folks being able to talk and and prep and plan.
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I was so happy. The Arizona Department of Education released an updated basic calculation for equalization assistance or what we call our BSA 55 reports. It contained pertinent information to our budget. The May rep we originally prepared on the April report. Our May report showed a lower ADM. So tonight's expenditure budget was updated immediately to allow your approval to be based on the most current information that AD has for our district. The 202425 budget revision number two is based on the current ADM and our current projections on our expenditures. It will carry us through the incumbrance period which will go through the end of August. The original budget that we did and our December revision was based on ADM of 3,640.1167. Now, I did tell you that there was a difference and a reduction between April and May. However, our original budget is going to see an increase overall by 13.0173 students or ADM, which will now be based on 30 653.1134.
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Any questions? I know it was a lot of information fast. Sorry. Yeah, that was pretty fast. I was right like really really fast. So, I might have to come back to you. You're good at some point and some stuff. Yeah, but you did a really good job. So, I don't So, first of all, thank you. Yeah, thank you for taking over a department program. Um, I'm happy to be here. Or a district program that really needed some help. I I'm really really grateful for that. That's where I came in was when things were not so good and we had a lot of angry parents and and I appreciate your attention to it. I do have just a couple questions so if you don't mind or do we let the other people talk? I was like, yeah, do you want them to go? You're you've already started.
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And I know that uh I know Mr. Adams, who is the superintendent of schools, is very concerned about that right now, especially through our tribal meetings that we've had. Yep. Good. We have about 12 minutes. So, I'm going to ask you to think about this when I ask the question and try to be brief and concise with your answers. I know that's sometimes hard for some of us. What specific initiatives would you prioritize to strengthen community engagement and ensure residents feel heard in town decisionmaking? It's a lot. It's discussed been discussed a lot. So, think about it. And Joe, would you like to go first on that? Sure. Why not answers? I might limit you to a few minutes. Okay. Difficult question. uh and not an easy answer, but I would say that having gone through this process once before, I would say that making sure the initiatives that we have previously worked on continue and we follow through with completing them and not just leaving them in obeyance and holding off on things like we've done in the past.
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B is retiring, right? We have one, right? So, um, but just wanted to say thank you for all the all the work and I'm excited and really appreciative for the commitment to early childhood education. I think it's got a great opportunity for us. Um, and I'm really excited to see where we'll go over the next couple years. We appreciate you, Sarah. Thank you for all you do. Okay, your turn. Bye, Jenna. I'm Jenna Lrena. I'm the principal at the Mendes School. Thank you so much for having us here tonight. Um, the school improvement plan captures a lot of what we do, but there is much more um that I won't be talking about that we do throughout our years and our time. I have last year's plan with progress notes on it, and then I have a plan for next year, and I can speak to both at once if that's okay.
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Uh, any [Music] discussion? Okay. Uh, yes. Vice Chair Saxton, I was just wondering where do the books go after we get rid of them? Do we donate them to places? So, city departments have the opportunity for two weeks to come and take whatever they want and then we usually coordinate with roundabout. They have been very receptive to taking most of what we're discarding. Um, so that's usually our next step, but if you have other avenues, we're always happy to make sure they get donated to where it might be useful. Not that I can think of, but I'll I'll put my thinking cap on it. Okay. Any other discussion? Member Goodwin is the um item F the oven for the middle school. Okay. Yes. Vice Chair Ston. Sorry, I had one other thing about the proposed pay rates for staff. Do we think that that's going to be enough to entice people to do the work?
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Uh, any [Music] discussion? Okay. Uh, yes. Um, Vice Chair Saxton, I was just wondering where do the books go after we get rid of them? Do we donate them to places? So, city departments have the opportunity for two weeks to come and take whatever they want and then we usually coordinate with roundabout. They have been very receptive to taking most of what we're discarding. Um, so that's usually our next step, but if you have other avenues, we're always happy to make sure they get donated to where it might be useful. Not that I can think of, but I'll I'll put my thinking cap on it. Okay. Any other discussion? Member Goodwin is the um item F the oven for the middle school. Okay. Yes. Vice Chair Ston. Sorry, I had one other thing about the proposed pay rates for staff. Do we think that that's going to be enough to entice people to do the work?
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